The local birding community is atwitter with the discovery of a brown shrike, a small bird of Siberian origins that is exceptionally rare to the Western Hemisphere. It is the first time a brown shrike ...

The brown shrike ( Lanius cristatus cristatus) is ironically the shrike that seems to be most at home in and around Chennai, though it hardly has its hearth in these parts. A winter visitor, the brown ...

The rare Brown Shrike (Lanius cristatus) was spotted in Malta yesterday for the first time ever. BirdLife Malta ornithologists confirmed the bird's species this morning. The bird was seen in the south ...

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Birdwatchers in Kannur have sighted an Isabelline shrike, a rare migratory bird believed to have arrived from the Mongolian region during the winter season. This marks the first recorded sighting of ...

The other day I was walking on a field in Purbachol when I noticed a bird perched on the stalk of a shrivelled kash flower. Coming closer, I noticed its distinctive black cap, hooked beak and somewhat ...