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Wildbuzz: An uncommon smartness
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
PUBLISHED ON NOV 21, 2020 11:09 PM IST
Understanding why herons are very smart birds that adapt beautifully to the environment changing around them
Wildbuzz: A fawn not spared
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
PUBLISHED ON NOV 07, 2020 11:40 PM IST
A well-intentioned move can at times have serious repercussions
Wildbuzz: Soldiers rose to the occasion
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON OCT 31, 2020 10:12 PM IST
Roses not only bestow upon the world’s highest battlefield, the Siachen glacier, its enigmatic name but their omnipresence lends them the status of the poet’s flower of remembrance for soldiers and airmen who laid down their lives battling two inimical neighbours since 1947
Wildbuzz: Robber of shikar booty
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON OCT 24, 2020 10:29 PM IST
The harrier, a migratory bird that winters in the region’s wetlands such as the Sukhna lake and Motemajra, steals prey from not only shikaris but also avian predators
Wildbuzz: An isle of hope at Sukhna
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
PUBLISHED ON OCT 17, 2020 10:39 PM IST
A small island that has appeared in the Sukhna lake is keeping birds happy even as butterflies are being choosy about the plants they flutter around
Wildbuzz: Where angels don’t fear to tread
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON OCT 10, 2020 09:31 PM IST
Attracting butterflies with rotten bananas fermented with rum and recording the graceful glide of a squirrel with a camera
Wildbuzz: Glides on moonbeams
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON SEP 26, 2020 09:15 PM IST
Squirrels master the art of flying when they don’t want waste time running up and down trees
Wildbuzz: Fall of a beloved bird
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON SEP 19, 2020 11:59 PM IST
A beautiful Oriental Pied hornbill gets electrocuted and in HP a farmer shoots dead a Rock python in cold blood
Wildbuzz: Pied cuckoo Megh goes off satellite’s radar
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON SEP 12, 2020 10:29 PM IST
Scientists are worried about the disappearance of a Pied cuckoo named Megh and in Srinagar snakes are surfacing in the unlikeliest of places
Wildbuzz: The monkey trap
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
PUBLISHED ON SEP 05, 2020 11:23 PM IST
It’s not easy to win the trust of monkeys that are tamed or raised in captivity and go rogue after escape or abandonment
Wildbuzz: The ghost of sunsets past
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON AUG 30, 2020 02:18 AM IST
What adds to a leopard’s stealth and ability to operate under the human radar is the fact that it hardly ever roars, snarls or growls when prowling the grey zones as the shadows of the moon lengthen or when resting and hiding during the day
Wildbuzz: Human who won a pitta’s trust
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON AUG 22, 2020 10:41 PM IST
Wildbuzz: The love that flew away
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON AUG 08, 2020 09:07 PM IST
Wildbuzz: Snake with a white bindi
By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON AUG 01, 2020 10:45 PM IST
Meet the Common Bronzeback Tree snake with a distinct white spot on its head and the orange-reddish Black-headed Royal snake which displays inky splotches across its body
Wildbuzz: Star Wars over Pangong
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON JUL 18, 2020 11:09 PM IST
There are those moments of magical glimpses that uplift the sufferance of human existence to a momentary merger with cosmic divinity
Wildbuzz: Russell’s viper causes maximum deaths
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON JUL 11, 2020 09:03 PM IST
In the period 2000-2019, a staggering 1.2 million people had died in India due to snakebite, a very neglected tropical disease, states a study by the Centre for Global Health Research, University of Toronto, with Indian and UK partners
Wildbuzz: Home they brought the flowers for the dead
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON JUN 27, 2020 11:34 PM IST
Memories of the fallen heroes of Kargil have been lovingly kept alive by their parents
WILDBUZZ: O! To be a wagtail, skipping stones on the blue Indus
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
PUBLISHED ON JUN 20, 2020 08:51 PM IST
Wildbuzz: What’s in a name that we call sambar
By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON JUN 13, 2020 10:00 PM IST
A change or amendment in the scientific name will be helpful in Indian wildlife litigation involving Sambars, such as poaching or environmental clearance for diversion of Sambar habitats, says a wildlife expert
WILDBUZZ: On a dark night, those blood-red eyes
By Vikram Jit Singh
PUBLISHED ON JUN 06, 2020 05:17 PM IST
The good news for the tricity’s vibrant community of bird watchers, owl lovers and Nature enthusiasts is that a second family of Mottled Wood owls has been discovered with two growing ‘bacchas’ at the Peermuchalla forests, Zirakpur
Wildbuzz: Claws of law tighten grip on killers of migratory falcons
By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON MAY 31, 2020 12:03 AM IST
Raids launched in response to exposé in the Wildbuzz column on April 22, 2018, and May 10, 2020 have led to the arrest of two pigeon fanciers on charges of slaughtering raptors
Wildbuzz: Hiss master’s voice & choice
Hindustan Times | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON OCT 28, 2018 09:09 AM IST
Travellers on the Tricity’s countryside roads, too, will have observed snakes run over by vehicles in October. The reason being, reptiles slither out at night to deserted roads to seek warmth from the still-warm tarmac.
Wildbuzz: From shooting birds to birdies
Hindustan Times | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON OCT 21, 2018 09:20 AM IST
Rewinding to the pioneering path he took from the CGC of the 1970s to donning the mantle of India’s most successful golfer (13 international titles), Jeev’s generation was classic outdoors.
Wildbuzz: The poet’s Shahbaaz
Hindustan Times | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON AUG 26, 2018 09:09 AM IST
How would the chick of a very rare species of the region, the Mottled wood owl, rescued from the Chandigarh Golf Club by international golfer, Sujjan Singh, recently lead us to the heart of these connections?
Wildbuzz: Nagar ke khaas mehmaan
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON AUG 18, 2018 10:10 PM IST
The Black bittern and Sirkeer malkoha are two birds that range across the Sukhna lake jungles but are difficult to discern.
Wildbuzz: Mitti ka sher, Baaz of belief, and parivar’s passion
Hindustan Times | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON JUN 16, 2018 10:22 PM IST
Fact is the ‘Baaz of belief’ was actually a juvenile Shikra and not to be mistaken for the Northern goshawk, the magnificent raptor historically associated with three Sikh gurus.
Wildbuzz: Spooked by strangers
Hindustan Times, Chandigarh | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON JUN 09, 2018 10:58 PM IST
Toor’s photograph revealed it was a Common Palm civet, locally known as ‘Bijjoo’ or even ‘Kabr bijjoo’ on the misconception that it digs graves at night to munch on corpses! But the civet does not attack and bite humans in the habit of dogs.
Wildbuzz: Black is beautiful, the dolphin riddles
Hindustan Times | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON MAY 12, 2018 10:37 PM IST
Black swans tilt towards monogamy but one-quarter of all pairings are homosexual, the two loving males sometimes adopt a female, mate with her and then drive her off to incubate eggs.
Wildbuzz: The squirrel widow, birds of Wuhan
Hindustan Times | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON MAY 05, 2018 10:59 PM IST
As luck would have it, just before Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Wuhan for the grand summit, an Indian birder was exploring the avian wonders of that Central China city poised at the confluence of the Yangtze and Hanshui rivers.
Wildbuzz: A treasure hunt, the pigeon hunter
Hindustan Times | By Vikram Jit Singh
UPDATED ON APR 28, 2018 11:50 PM IST
Let us meet a pigeon fancier of a decidedly different persuasion, a hobbyist who loves falcons and pigeons with equal fervour
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