WHERE HAVE THE BIRDS GONE? : Empty nests. Quiet skies. One question.
WHERE HAVE THE BIRDS GONE? : Empty nests. Quiet skies. One question.
Asad Rahmani
- Publisher : Juggernaut
- Publication date : 20 August 2026
- Language : English
- Print length : 360 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9353452104
- ISBN-13 : 978-9353452100
India has long been a land alive with birdsong. But something is changing.
Birds are slipping away – lost to vanishing habitats, pesticide use and to the hard lines of power cables and dams that redraw the land. Some absences, like that of the Great Indian Bustard and White-bellied Heron, are stark. But others are quieter, easier to miss. Birds once ‘common’, like drongos and rollers, no longer gather as they did. And the dawn chorus – once a bright, swelling thread stitching night to morning – softens, frays and fades.
Where have these birds gone? And what does their silence mean for us?
This book answers these questions through intimate, searching accounts of species we are fast losing – tracing not just their disappearance, but the story of a land on the brink of its own silent spring.
India has long been a land alive with birdsong. But something is changing.
Birds are slipping away – lost to vanishing habitats, pesticide use and to the hard lines of power cables and dams that redraw the land. Some absences, like that of the Great Indian Bustard and White-bellied Heron, are stark. But others are quieter, easier to miss. Birds once ‘common’, like drongos and rollers, no longer gather as they did. And the dawn chorus – once a bright, swelling thread stitching night to morning – softens, frays and fades.
Where have these birds gone? And what does their silence mean for us?
This book answers these questions through intimate, searching accounts of species we are fast losing – tracing not just their disappearance, but the story of a land on the brink of its own silent spring.
Author Bios:
The longest-serving director of the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and one of our greatest ornithologists, Asad Rahmani has spent a lifetime studying and writing about birds. A prolific writer, he has published 27 books, nearly 160 peer-reviewed scientific papers and more than 350 popular articles on nature conservation.
The longest-serving director of the Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS) and one of our greatest ornithologists, Asad Rahmani has spent a lifetime studying and writing about birds. A prolific writer, he has published 27 books, nearly 160 peer-reviewed scientific papers and more than 350 popular articles on nature conservation.
