A counterpart to the Ruddy shelduck (Surkhab) in terms of an ‘airborne early warning system’, the redshank is an alert and excitable bird, and the first to take flight and issue an alarm call ...

Every year, 5-12 lakh migratory birds are seen in Hokersar, Hygam, Prichal, Shallabugh, Chatlam, Fashkoori, Manibugh, Krenchoo, Wular and Dal – lakes and protected wetlands where they feed and ...

Thus, it literally means, ‘calling like a wheel’. Over the ages, Chakravaak got shortened to Chakva or Chakkva.” A Ruddy shelducks’ pair, Mughal painting, c.1595. (The Cleveland Museum of Art) ...

Flocks of migratory birds such as swan geese and ruddy shelduck have come to the grasslands of Uiad, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, to spend the winter.

Bird-watchers and forest officials have spotted Northern shoveler, red-crested pochard, ruddy shelduck, lesser whistling duck and plaintive cuckoo at Masariya dam in Belagada panchayat under ...

Among the species in Bengal categorised as high conservation priority are ruddy shelduck, common merganser, great crested grebe, pale-capped pigeon, lesser sand plover, great knot, lesser adjutant ...