“…With a flash of white and a sharp carrying rattle”, the bird “fluttered off the ground before dropping back to the spot he took off from”. It “did that ...

No more birding delight of witnessing the dance of courtship of Lesser Florican, the smallest bird of the bustard family, in MP. After the great Indian Bustard, grasslands of Madhya Pradesh are on the ...

Across India, grasslands are highly degraded and mismanaged ecosystems. Often considered wastelands, they face the constant threats of being turned into tree plantations by the Forest Department, ...

The smallest of the bustard family, Lesser Florican is renowned for its spectacular leaping breeding display. However, widespread loss of its grassland habitat in South Asia have led to rapid declines ...

Birdwatchers have spotted a rare migratory bird of the bustard species named Lesser Florican in the wetlands of Chattanchal in Kasaragod. This is the first time that a rare migratory bird is spotted ...

A female lesser florican - an endangered species of bustard endemic to India of which less than 270 are estimated to be alive in the wild - was rescued by the forest department in Solapur, Maharashtra ...

Nagpur: A critically endangered Lesser Florican, the smallest bird in the bustard family, has been spotted in Pench Tiger Reserve (PTR), Maharashtra. This is the first record of the bird in the tiger ...

In a major discovery, the longest in-country migration route of lesser floricans, the endangered birds of the bustard group, has been tracked for the first time from Rajasthan to Maharashtra’s ...

A sighting that has surprised wildlife enthusiasts and birders -- a critically endangered lesser florican bird was spotted for the first time in Ratnagiri district in Maharashtra, once again ...