Birds of India Quiz for Beginners
How well do you know India’s incredible birdlife? · 10 questions · Multiple choice
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India’s land records classify open grasslands as “wasteland” because they carry no trees. That single word is why the Great Indian Bustard is disappearing, why the blackbuck needs reintroduction programmes, and why the cheetah has no secured wild habitat to return to.
An eight-year-old tigress and her entire litter of four cubs died within nine days at Kanha Tiger Reserve’s Sarhi range in Madhya Pradesh, in what wildlife officials fear may be the reserve’s first Canine Distemper Virus outbreak in over a decade.
The Phato zone entry gate is named after a Van Gujjar settlement. On a December morning, what we saw on the road beyond it raised questions that no gate, and no permit, is currently equipped to answer.
Two Indian women win the Whitley Awards 2026 — the Green Oscars of conservation — for saving the Indian skimmer and the Himalayan salamander. Plus: Ahmedabad launches its first-ever monkey census, and the week’s wildlife news in brief.
On International Leopard Day 2026, IWN looks at India’s most misunderstood big cat — 13,874 individuals counted, thousands living outside protected areas, and a country still figuring out how to share space with them.
In the dynamic world of Indian wildlife documentary filmmaking, pioneers like Mike Pandey, Shekar Dattatri, and Sandesh Kadur forged new paths from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s. Their compelling narratives sparked environmental change, influenced policies, and celebrated India’s rich biodiversity, proving the transformative power of visual storytelling in conservation.
For the first time in decades, Rajasthan’s Chittorgarh forest department shifted its annual wildlife census to an evening start — running through the night by moonlight and camera trap — because May daytime temperatures have become unworkable.
A Great Indian Bustard chick hatched in Kutch, Gujarat using the jumpstart method — the first in Gujarat in over a decade. It learned to fly. Then it vanished. The story of a bird on the edge, and the science trying to pull it back.
Forest officials in Karnataka’s Shivamogga seized 45 country-made explosive devices from a habitual poacher on 19 April 2026. Here’s what handi bombs are, how they work, and why they’re one of the most dangerous threats to Indian wildlife.