CHENNAI: Spread across 37,733 hectares on the Coromandel Coast in the Nagapattinam district, the Point Calimere Wildlife and Bird Sanctuary – declared a Ramsar site in 2002 for its ecological ...

All other plumages can be separated from the lesser goldfinch by their bolder wing pattern and white undertail coverts. The female Lawrence’s goldfinch is gray like a nonbreeding adult female ...

Hummingbirds are the only birds that can fly backwards. They can also fly sideways, forwards, and upside down. Image: Pexels ...

Females have the same general color pattern as the males ... When placed in contrast with the bird’s gray wing and back feathers and the black feathers along its breast, those red feathers ...

Birds are vertebrate animals adapted for flight. Many can also run, jump, swim, and dive. Some, like penguins, have lost the ability to fly but retained their wings. Birds are found worldwide and ...