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'Living with Birds': Asad Rahmani's memoir captures birding legacy

Rahmani's most significant contribution has been to bring grassland and savannah squarely into the popular conservation discourse

LIVING WITH BIRDS, THE MEMOIR OF ONE OF INDIA'S GREATEST ORNITHOLOGISTS
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LIVING WITH BIRDS, THE MEMOIR OF ONE OF INDIA'S GREATEST ORNITHOLOGISTS

Ghazala Shahabuddin

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LIVING WITH BIRDS, THE MEMOIR OF ONE OF INDIA'S GREATEST ORNITHOLOGISTS
Author: Asad Rahmani
Publisher: Juggernaut
Pages: 368  Price: ₹599
  Asad Rahmani is one of India’s eminent naturalists — an indefatigable bird explorer, and a walking encyclopedia on avian life.  Living with Birds, his autobiography, reveals a lot, not only about Indian birds and their conservation during the last half-century but also about a bygone era of field ornithology. 
Rahmani was passionate about birds from an early age, and later his passion transformed into his profession. His ornithological journey — as a teenager watching the Brahminy Ducks in the fields near