Adventures of the Parmadan
Parmadan requires no introduction to a birding enthusiast in Calcutta, especially after this year. I guess everybody who could crawl, walk, drive, or board a train, has been to the Parmadan forest in [Read more...]
Birding
I am introduced to “birding” or bird-watching / bird-photography by my younger brother, Souranil. While I started it in Calcutta/India, I plan to photograph birds in all the places I visit in my lifetime. Keep visiting this space for more ;)
Quick Birding at Latpanchar, Bengal!
Latpanchar is a small village near Sittong, in the Darjeeling district of West Bengal. While these areas are gaining popularity in the birding circuits in Calcutta, it is relatively lesser explored [Read more...]
From Trogon to a possible viral Infection: My Experience in Kuldiha Wildlife Sanctuary
Kuldiha is located in the Balasore district of Odisha, next to West Bengal. It takes around 4 hours to drive from Bhubaneshwar and when Souranil asked if I would wish to join him and his friends on a [Read more...]
Storks, Cormorants, and a little more | Duttabagan (Calcutta) and Raiganj Bird Sanctuary (North Bengal).
In this post, I show some photographs of Asian Openbill, Indian Cormorants, Black-crowned night heron shot in Duttabagan (Kolkata), Asian Openbills, Hairy crested Drongo, and birds conserved in [Read more...]
Custom Named Entity Recognition (NER) model to detect bird names from user-generated texts on social media, using Natural Language Processing (NLP) Techniques and the package Spacy.
I just wrote my life's longest blog post title! If you are reading this blog post, I would expect you to be either in the field of data science / NLP or interested in birding! If you are not, you [Read more...]
Manali; …of clouds & the hubbub over the white-tailed bird!
Manali | 2022 May There was an uncomfortable silence after we finished our first round of drinks. Manish broke it with, "P, do you know my friend photographed one exciting bird today?" P is the [Read more...]
I saw peacocks at the Okhla Bird Sanctuary in Noida!
Okhla Bird Sanctuary is on the bank of river Yamuna, in Noida. It is easily accessible from Delhi, obviously and if you like birds and are in Delhi, maybe give this place a quick visit! Guess what? I [Read more...]
Talking birds to the 9-year-old niece!
Let me start with an apology! This blog post will have a significant amount of Bangla language in it. I wish I could translate all of them but that does not seem very probable! Also, I am not [Read more...]
I came back to Kolkata and have photographed birds!
If you have read the blog post title, you very well know what I am going to talk about: Photographing birds in Kolkata! But first, let me answer a few mandatory questions to set your expectations. [Read more...]
Visiting Storchenhof at Loburg (near Magdeburg) & other things!
White Storks at Storchenhof, Loburg near Magdeburg | 2020 Storchenhof, Loburg Loburg is a small township near Magdeburg, around half an hour bus ride from Opernhaus, the nearest bus stop to my [Read more...]