Santiniketan : Added To The UNESCO World Heritage Sites List Santiniketan, the home of late Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage Sites list. Santiniketan is located in the state of West Bengal. It was established in 1901 by Rabindranath Tagore. It was a residential school and centre for art […]
Day: September 19, 2023
Red-Necked Phalarope : Spotted
Red-Necked Phalarope : Spotted A group of birders who visited Kurichi Tank in Coimbatore spotted a Red-necked phalarope (Phalaropus lobatus). Red-necked phalarope is a fairly small shorebird known for spinning frantically on water to stir up small invertebrates. It has a circumpolar distribution and is found in both boreal and tundra zones between 60 and […]
Broadnose Sevengill Shark
Broadnose Sevengill Shark: Ecologists are naturally concerned when record-setting rain this year altered the Broadnose Sevengill shark nursery grounds in San Francisco Bay. Broadnose Sevengill Shark is a large seven-gilled with a wide head and short, blunt snout shark. It is related to sharks that lived in the Jurassic Period about 300 million years ago. […]
