Resources

A USEFUL RESOURCE LIST

BIRDS

• Cinemas on birds. (Submitted by Indiaunfinished on experiencing India, a wordpress blog.)
• Useful links on Indian Birds on this page by from Vivek “Spiderhunter” Tiwari, the list-owner of  nathistory-india on the Princeton University server.
• Checklist of the Birds of India : as per classification and nomenclature in Pamela C. Rasmussen & John C. Anderton’s “Birds of South Asia. The Ripley Guide”.
• Stamps on birds :  Theme Birds on Stamps by Kjell Scharning & Bird Stamps by Chris Gibbins.
• Manakadan, R. & Pittie, A. (2001). Standardised common and scientific names of the birds of the Indian Subcontinent. Buceros (ENVIS Newsletter) 6. Bombay NaturalHistory Society, Mumbai. ( Download here : Manakadan & Pittie – StandardNomenclature2004. )
• “Birds on Indian Postage Stamps” by Col Ashwin Baindur, published Indian Birds (ed. Aasheesh Pittie), Vol. 7 No. 1 (Publ. 15 April 2011).

BUTTERFLIES

OTHER ARTHROPODS

• Field guide- Dragonflies and Damselflies of Peninsular India by Dr K.A. Subramanian, published as part of Project Lifescape (2005).