May 22, 2021
House Sparrow
While we may not give them a second look, sparrows have distinguished lineage. They lend their name, Passer, to the order Passerines, which comprises more than half of the world’s bird species....
May 1, 2021
Streets of San Francisco
In 1983, upon completing my engineering education in the United States, I took a software engineering job in California’s Silicon Valley.
April 24, 2021
Crested Serpent Eagle
I was walking downhill along a narrow plantation trail in Moulvi Bazar when my eyes caught movement in the Kodom tree abutting a pond at the end of the trail.
April 10, 2021
Bazas of the World
In late 2019, while visiting Bandarban with friends, I saw a medium sized brown bird perched on a distant tree. It looked like a bird of prey. After looking through my binoculars for a few seconds,...
April 3, 2021
My Photography Teachers
I thought I knew everything I needed to know about photography. Then I found myself in a photography workshop taught by Sam Abell. That week ten years ago changed my photographic life.
March 27, 2021
Pallas’s Fish Eagle
One day, I was looking for birds in Hail Haor, a low-lying wetland near Moulvi Bazar where monsoon rain accumulates in large saucer-shaped depressions creating beels and fishponds.
March 20, 2021
Mr. and Mrs. Gould
I became interested in the work of the Goulds after noticing that two of the prettiest birds I have seen bear that name. John Gould (1804-1881) was an English ornithologist and author. His wife...
March 6, 2021
What’s in a (Scientific) Name?
In 1758, the Swedish scientist Carl Linnaeus introduced a naming system for living organisms.