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 ...
10 Months Ago
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 b...
11 Months Ago
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...
1 Year Ago
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 Raigan...
1 Year Ago
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!...
1 Year Ago
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...
1 Year Ago
