Author: fizala
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Greater Flamingo in Najafgarh, Delhi
Fizala Tayebulla On 22 June 2018, the CUES team visited Najafgarh jheel and marshland in the wee hours of the day to record the sighting of Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) flocks that have started to migrate here, skipping traditional stop-overs: Okhla and Sultanpur Bird sanctuary. The Greater Flamingo is a resident of West Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, the…
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House Sparrows and significance of Urban Green Spaces
Fizala Tayebulla and Vijaylakshmi Suman 20 March was celebrated as World Sparrow Day. The first edition of this day was celebrated in 2010 in different parts of the world. Historically, house sparrows (Passer domesticus) have cohabited with humans, while also playing the role of an indicator species for assessing ecological quality. Sparrows survive mostly on…
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What Makes Some Birds Urban Exploiters?
By Fizala Tayebulla Keywords: Urban Exploiter, Urbanized Area, Behavior, Trait The growth of urban topography encompasses corresponding shifts of all its associated elements and features – even biodiversity. A question to be asked is, how species characterize themselves within landscapes marked by varying degrees of urbanization? In the subject of Urban Ecology, there are two…
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Green Spaces in the Urban
By Fizala Tayebulla Keywords: Urban Green Space, Urban Park, Human-Environment Relation, Urbanization Under the ambit of urban green space- urban public park or a metropolitan park is a green and open space in cities that offer recreation to residents and visitors. Urban parks are typically maintained by the government on a local level but may…
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Living with Particulate Matter
By Fizala Tayebulla Soon after Diwali, I had a chance encounter with a group of acquaintances, where the subject of discussion was unsurprisingly the condition of air quality in Delhi with reference to Diwali. While most of us in the group shared a mutual aversion to cracker bursting, Danish, who is a permanent resident of Delhi…
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Where are the fish ladders in our dams?
Fizala Tayebulla Migration in fish population is a common phenomenon among several species for different purposes in their life cycle. Popularly talked about migratory fish species in India are Hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha), Pangas (Pangasius pangasius), Anguillid eels (Anguilla bengalensis, A. bicolor) as well as the Indian major carps (Catla, Rohu and Mrigal), because of their…
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Going, going, gone: Deepor Beel
By Fizala Tayebulla Deepor Beel (‘Beel’ meaning a lake-like wetland with static water in Assamese) is an emblematic wetland found within Burma Monsoon Forest biogeographic region (Saikia et al, 2014). Declared in 2002, Deepor Beel is the only Ramsar site in Assam and is a permanent fresh water lake. It is an oxbow lake located…