Dr. N. S. Prashanth (Daktre)

Dr. N. S. Prashanth (Daktre)

Dr. Prashanth is a medical doctor leading a team at the Institute of Public Health, Bangalore, and obtained his PhD in public health from ITM, Antwerp. He has been a Wellcome Trust/DBT India Alliance fellow at IPH since 2017. Apart from his work in healthcare, he is...
Dr. Salim Ali’s Mysore Bird Survey and Follow-up

Dr. Salim Ali’s Mysore Bird Survey and Follow-up

Dr. Salim Ali conducted the Mysore Bird Survey between November 1939 to February 1940 with the consent of the Mysore Durbar by visiting over 75 locations spread across nine districts in the present-day Karnataka and three districts in Tamil Nadu. The Mysore Bird...
Bird Nest Box Project

Bird Nest Box Project

Continuing the passion Dr. George had for nest boxes, especially his favourite Magpie-Robin. He realised and taught us that many of these cavity nesters are facing a huge challenge to find space to breed. Hakkigoodu nest box team has been popularizing nest boxes for...
J. N. Prasad

J. N. Prasad

JN Prasad has been a keen naturalist and birdwatcher for the last 4 decades. A post-graduate in International Marketing and also in Ecology and Environment, he has over 50 papers and notes to his credits in leading national & international publications. Associated...
Dr. S. Subramanya

Dr. S. Subramanya

Dr. S. Subramanya, known as ‘Subbu’ or ‘Subbi’ in birding circles studied entomology at the University of Agricultural Science in Bangalore. In 1980, he joined BNHS to work under Dr. Salim Ali, in its bird migration project at Point Calimere, Bharatpur and Harike....
Shyamal L.

Shyamal L.

Shyamal is an independent researcher with a broad training in biology, statistics and numerical computing. His work has been at the intersection of computation and biology. He has been interested in the outdoors, natural history of India, and the history of science....