Technical Reports

• Addressing Knowledge Gaps in Breeding Biology and Enhancing Awareness of Forest Owlet (Athene blewitti) in Dangs Forests, Gujarat Kaushal Patel, WCS India.Read Final Report
• Conservation of Raptors in India led by Dr Ratul Saha and his Raptor Team, World Wide Fund for Nature-India (WWF-India). Read Final Report
• Studying Home Range, Seasonal Movement and Habitat Use by the Endangered Forest Owlet and Sympatric Owls using Radiotelemetry in Melghat Tiger Reserve Dr Prachi Mehta, Mr Jayant Kulkarni, Wildlife Research and Conservation Society (WRCS), Pune. Read Final Report
• Demography of Urban Black Kites Milvus migrans: Phase- V (August 2018 – October 2020) Urvi Gupta (Project Biologist), Amee Mehta (Post Graduate Research Associate). Investigators and Collaborators Dr. Nishant Kumar, Prof. Y V Jhala, Prof. Qamar Qureshi, Dr. Dhananjai Mohan, Prof. Fabrizio Sergio & Prof. Andrew G Gosler. Read Final Report
• "A Study on the Population, Demography and Ecology of the Forest Owlet Heteroglaux blewitti in East Kalibhit Reserved Forests, Khandwa District, Madhya Pradesh" Prachi Mehta, Akshay V. Anand and Jayant Kulkarni. Read Final Report
• Conservation of the Andaman Serpent Eagle Spilornis elgini in the Andaman Islands: Phase – I, submitted by Dr. Shirish Manchi, Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. Executive Summary
• Behavioural Ecology of Black Kites Milvus migrans subsisting on urban resources in Delhi (August 2016- July 2018) – Nishant Kumar, Wildlife Institute of India, Uttarakhand. Read Final Report
• "Conservation strategies for securing critically endangered White-rumped Vulture Gyps bengalensis and Long-billed Vulture Gyps indicus species in the Tamil Nadu part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve". Read Final Report
• Resource Selection by Black Kites Milvus migrans – A summary of the Black Kite Project team's work in the second phase. Download report
• Amur Falcon Conservation Project – Bano Haralu, Ramki Sreenivasan, Nagaland Wildlife Biodiversity & Conservation Trust, Nagaland. Download reports for 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16. Please take a look at our AMY booklet for children
• Influence of Habitat Structure and Anthropogenic Disturbances on Diurnal Raptor Community in Rajaji National Park, India – Monica Kaushik. Download report
• A Study of Resource Selection by Black Kites Milvus migrans in the Urban Landscape of National Capital Region, India – Nishant Kumar, Wildlife institute of India, Uttarakhand. Download report

Journal Publications

• Metabarcoding for parallel identification of species, sex and diet of obligate scavengers: an application to globally-threatened Gyps vultures Mousumi Ghosh-Harihar, Nehal Gurung, Harsh Shukla, Ishani Sinha, Awadhesh Pandit, Vibhu Prakash, Rhys E. Green & Uma Ramakrishnan in conservation Genetics Resources.
• Spatial patterns in the diet of Gyps vultures in India and their implications for conservation Mousumi Ghosh-Harihar, Nidhi Yadav, Nehal Gurung, C.S. Darshan, B. Shashikumar, C.K. Vishnudas, Vibhu Prakash, Rhys E. Green, Uma Ramakrishnan in Biological Conservation.
• "Factors influencing Habitat Use by Owls in a Mosaic Landscape" by Sangeeth Sailas in ARDEA. This research article was based on his study on owls in Garo Hills, Assam, India. Link: https://bioone.org/journals/ardea/volume-109/issue-2/arde.v109i3.a10/Factors-Influencing-Habitat-Use-by-Owls-in-a-Mosaic-Landscape/10.5253/arde.v109i3.a10.full
• "Investigating reversed sexual size dimorphism in the Endangered Forest Owlet Athene (Heteroglaux) blewitti" Prachi Mehta, Akshay Vinod Anand, S. Sangeeth Sailas & Jayant Kulkarni in the Journal of Asian Ornithology.
• Occupancy and Population Abundance of Two Serpent-eagles (Spilornis elgini and S. Cheela) in the Andaman Islands, India Shirish S Manchi, Dhanushka Kawalkar, Shivkumari Patel, and Sayli Sawant in Journal of Raptor Research.
• "Raptor research during the COVID-19 pandemic provides invaluable opportunities for conservation biology" Petra Sumasgutnera, Ralph Buij, Christopher J.W.McClure, Phil Shaw, Cheryl R.Dykstra, Nishant Kumar, Christian Rutz in Biological Conservation.
• "GPS telemetry unveils the regular high elevation crossing of the Himalayas by a migratory raptor: implications for definition of a "Central Asian Flyway" Nishant Kumar, Urvi Gupta, Yadvendradev V. Jhala, Qamar Qureshi, Andrew G. Gosler & Fabrizio Sergio in Scientific Reports.
• "Habitat selection by Black kite breeders and floaters: Implications for conservation management of raptor floaters" Alessandro Tanferna, Lidia López-Jiménez, Julio Blas, Fernando Hiraldo, Fabrizio Sergio. Biological Conservation.
• "The population density of an urban raptor is inextricably tied to human cultural practices" Nishant Kumar, Urvi Gupta, Harsha Malhotra, Yadvendradev V. Jhala, Qamar Qureshi, Andrew G. Gosler and Fabrizio Sergio. Proceedings B of the Royal Society.
• "Human-attacks by an urban raptor are tied to human subsidies and religious practices" Nishant Kumar, Yadvendradev V. Jhala2, Qamar Qureshi, Andrew G. Gosler & Fabrizio Sergio. Scientific Reports.
• "Offspring defense by an urban raptor responds to human subsidies and ritual animal-feeding practices" Nishant Kumar , Qamar Qureshi, Yadvendradev V. Jhala, Andrew G. Gosler, Fabrizio Sergio. PLOS One.
• "Diets of Sympatric Forest Owlets, Spotted Owlets, and Jungle Owlets in East Kalibhit Forests, Madhya Pradesh, India" Prachi Mehta and Jayant Kulkarni, Shyamakant Talmale, Ridhi Chandarana. Journal of Raptor Research. Link: http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3356/JRR-17-00002.1
• "Density, Laying Date, Breeding Success and Diet of Black Kites Milvus migrans govinda in the City of Delhi (India)" Nishant Kumar, Dhananjai Mohan, Yadvendradev V. Jhala, Qamar Qureshi. BIRD STUDY, Journal of British Trust of Ornithology.
• "Habitat Selection by an Avian Top Predator in the Tropical Megacity of Delhi: Human Activities and Socio-religious Practices as Prey-facilitating Tools" Nishant Kumar, Urvi Gupta, Yadvendradev V. Jhala, Qamar Qureshi, Andrew G. Gosler, Fabrizio Sergio. Urban Ecosystems [Open accessat :https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11252-017-0716-8; With permission from Springer Nature SharedIt initiative.]