Flirting with feathers - The Hindu

The 21-year-old Ramit Singal, who has mapped 206 species of birds in his university town of Manipal, talks about how his passion took wing.

As I waited for the official book launch of A Birder’s Handbook to Manipal(Manipal University Press, 2013) in the open-air amphitheatre in Manipal, the author Ramit Singal, a wiry, bespectacled, shy 21-year-old lost in his beard, kept identifying all the varied twilight bird-calls all around us. His ear seemed more attuned to bird-call than the human gabble of congratulations. Singal’s book lists 206 species of birds found in Manipal, the coastal university-town. Nestled in the rich bio-diverse valley of the Western Ghats, the region hosts “many endemic and rare species”, threatened by the accelerated development of the last decade.

Link : Flirting with feathers - The Hindu