Day 5 of proving bird names makes no sense. The naming is all over the place for this fairly common north American warbler. A name is supposed to describe the species/paint anyone a mental picture easily. This species got its name for the shape of the nest it builds🤦🏻‍♂️ #birds #WhatWereTheyThinking

First ever record of Pectoral sandpiper from eastern India in its entirety. Photographed off the coast of Bay of Bengal in frazergunj by a team of 5 bird watchers at midday yesterday. Found roaming in a pond a bit away from the actual shore. This is a vagrant for India. Photograph off Facebook.

Found some people really upset about a death across the world. More than a genocide actually. So it seems to be a good day to post this.

Day 5 of proving bird names makes no sense. This is another interesting one. This fairly common Australian robin was called brown flycatcher till 1926. Then its name changed under colonialism supposedly due to its winter call. Now it’s a mob boss. Or a porn star. #birds #WhatWereTheyThinking

Intellectual and moral rot has set in so deep in this country that a known YouTuber is defending corruption?? What???? These specimens are above and beyond the level of mockery and insults. I refuse to acknowledge them as humans anymore

Day 4 of proving bird names makes no sense. This is an interesting one. It was supposed to have a hummingbird added to its name at the end. But during some point, someone decided to omit it and that name have stuck since! Like what??? I give up🙏🏻 #birds #WhatWereTheyThinking

Ohh my god. A flycatcher is stuck with a depressing name because someone wrongly identified it instead of pewee. Talk about injustice😔

Day 3 of proving bird names makes no sense. Like what is even this? Can you be any more literal?? #birds #WhatWereTheyThinking

Saturday was sad. So happy Sunday? This west Mexican wren is unbothered by the world and permanently off sadness. Dat 2 of providing further proof that avian naming makes no sense.

Okay then. Let’s start with this inexplicable name. A Jamaican flycatcher who is forbidden to be happy. This is one of those names that absolutely shut me up with the suddenness, the fact that it hasn’t been changed since is even more ridiculous. I would loveeee to know the lore behind its name

When Sylvia Plath wrote, “being born a woman is my awful tragedy”, the entire female population of the Indian subcontinent felt that personally

Apparently a slogan is a terrorism while this is not. On video, a rescue operation in a hospital is attacked. The level of war crime committed off video is not even comprehensible. The pattern of attacking the journalists, children, women, wounded are still the same months later. Ghouls.

NTCA on July 25th filed an affidavit in Bombay HC stating they were in process of strengthening the definition of tiger corridors based on various criteria. About a month later, they flipped on their own decision and included only the least cost tiger pathways. You can only laugh because logic🚀

Neither they will progress nor will they let anyone progress! Sci-Hub has been ordered to be banned across India by a Delhi HC order. Entirely a section of Indian academia runs on scihub. The students who cannot afford subscription are gonna be left in the dark.

Pedophilia used to be a career ended in any field let alone politics. Now it’s another promotion in Israel and govt coordinated escape plan from US. Unreal.

Back from a field visit where I finally managed to photograph a chocolate albatross after years of seeing it, and well ignoring it. An incredibly common butterfly in the sub-mountainous regions of India. Their large scale mud puddling in riverbeds is a sight to behold. #butterfliesofindia

Fellas, is it unpatriotic to eat meat on Independence Day?

Every Bengali is Bangladeshi, every punjabi is khalistani and every Kashmiri is terrorist. The country is rotten to the core

Here’s your distraction! Petitions emerged, civil groups formed overnight to repel this. More outrage than voter list fraud, Manipur presidential rule, constant dehumanisation of Indian Muslims and other minorities, targeting of Bengali speakers. Slow caps for this country

237 journalists killed since this began. More than any conflict/war. It’s a war crime to target and kill journalists. But then again everyone is Hamas because the Israeli government said so. Interesting timing too, just before the entire Gaza city occupation. International law is truly dead.

I have so many elephant photos to post. Bear with me while I bore you with more photos of #AsianElephants. This mom and child were feasting on some fresh mud (they eat mud for digestion) 📷 🌿 🐘 #wildlife #nature #IndianWildlife #mammals #elephants #photography

A slogan is considered terrorism while this human failure is still roaming scot free without any charges. What a world👏🏻

Feels like I haven’t posted birbs forever with everything that’s been going on lately. So here’s a Brahminy Kite. Rather his postcard. On a windy, cloudy day flying over chilka lake trying to make sure he stays airborne in strong headwinds while looking out for potential prey. #Birdsofindia

J.K. Rowling is not hated enough

It’s so disheartening to see absolutely zero talk about book ban in Kashmir. All the pompous book club and bookstagram people have turned a blind eye. Ironically, the political ideology that is so against censorship somehow does the most censoring.

So “israel has a right to defend itself”, “free all the hostages” ultimately led to land grab and ethnic cleansing. Some will still continue to defend this. Shame on everyone who aided and abetted this.

কিছুদিন আগে এক উদারমনস্ক পাখি দেখিয়ে আমাকে বললেন যে এটা একটা non-issue, তৃণমূল এটাকে ভোটের জন্য বেশি করে প্রচার করছে কিছু মানুষ তৃণমূল এর বিরোধিতা করতে গিয়ে এমন জায়গায়ে পৌছেছেন যে দেশের বাকি অংশের বাঙালি বিদ্বেশটা non-issue হয়ে যাচ্ছে

বাংলা এখন বাংলাদেশী ভাষা নাকি🙂 যেই বাংলা বলবে সেই বাংলাদেশী আর বাংলাদেশ মানেই তো মুসলিম দেশ

This is the state of the acclaimed director originating from Kerala at a time when propaganda film targeting their state won a national award. Casteist+misogynist. The ones who can speak up has gone down the toilet.

As things stand, onion would not require writers by mid-2026

Kerala story winning national award for best directing?? Big surprise as these people told Payal Kapadia that all we see as light is not Indian enough for being sent to Oscar as an official entry

Should’ve added this on #Internationaltigerday. Essentially the discovery of Ajanta caves was due to a tiger. One of the greatest collection of human art was discovered because a hunter followed pug marks. From the book The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed The World by William Dalrymple

China mail (published in Hong Kong), August 18th, 1950. Since everyone loves comparing what Nehru did back then. And yes, he was talking politics. Photo ops didn’t exist back then but politics did.

TIL a new term called jeans jihad. I’m gonna take a break from reality

Who would have thought the nuclear power plant that went into melt down because of a tsunami would be at risk from another tsunami?

Looking forward to the explanation of the science (with proper scientific terms, not baloney or weird hand movements) behind greenhouse gases not harming human beings

“There’s no starvation in Gaza, nor any famines”- yeah man totally. While we’re at it, let’s pretend the birds are not real too

There’s only one language in the world for which people have martyred. 8 people gave their lives on 21st February 1952 in Dhaka for their right to speak Bengali. UNESCO would later go on to recognise the day as #Internationalmotherlanguageday. Be rest assured, Bengali never bowed down nor ever will.

The Bombay High Court says it isn't patriotic for Indians to protest against the genocide in Gaza. thewire.in/law/this-is-...

You guys already ethnically cleanse the timeline pretty thoroughly.

Why is there so many conflicts all of a sudden where countries straight up refuse de-escalate and start bombing each other? I refuse to believe that this is a coincidence

“We systematically are killing and starving a lot of innocent people and now we are horrified that people call us monsters” An absolute disgrace

International law is a joke. The UN is a joke. And everyone who’s complicit will be remembered for generations to come for helping perpetrate a genocide

Petting zoos around the world are as harmful as they come and the closest a normal human being with normal amount of money can come to have some photo-op with an animal like this. A famous YouTuber with content like these is gonna encourage it more. Anything for views is not really worth it.

Don’t even have words atp😶

The 2011 census showed Bangla is the second most spoken Indian language. Yet, if you’re a Bengali-speaking Muslim in a BJP-ruled state, you may end up in Bangladesh before you even realise what happened. In this week's Chronology Samajhiye, Anant Gupta explains why. youtube.com/shorts/tBEib...

Why is Syria being attacked all of a sudden? Yes the postponement of the trial is the main reason but what’s the pretext of directly hitting an official govt building out of the blue? Even the Assad regime has been toppled and a more favourable ally in the former IS fighter has been installed too.

Hind Rajab. The phone call. The pain. 355 bullets. Never forget. No justice. No peace! #FreePalestine🇵🇸