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A flash of electric blue and a tail that defies proportion — the red-billed blue magpie commands the Shivapuri mornings. PHOTO: MD ARIF HOSSAIN PRODHAN

What you seek is seeking you: A morning at Shivapuri-Nagarjun National Park

The Emerald Cuckoo, a summer breeder in Bangladesh, develops metallic green plumage in males. The coloration comes with a mixture of gold and cobalt iridescence.

Chasing two Cuckoos that read my mind

Authorities apprehend man for destroying nests of Baya Weaver birds and killing chicks/ Collected

Man jailed, fined for destroying 27 Baya Weaver nests, killing chicks over paddy damage

Illustration: Ashrafun Naher Ananna/TBS Creative

Fastest birds on the planet

A black-legged kittiwake on its ledge nest. Unlike most gulls, kittiwakes have evolved so thoroughly for open ocean life. Photos: Muntasir Akash

Birds that belong to no shore

File Photo: TBS

Beanibazar’s green cover shrinks, migratory birds disappear

A bird sits on a branch in front of a partial solar eclipse near Bridgwater, in southwestern England, March 20, 2015. Photo: REUTERS/Toby Melville/File Photo

Study shows how solar eclipse made some birds sing like a new day dawned

A fire broke out at Kapasia Bazar in Gazipur district on 1 October. Photo: UNB

200 birds killed in Gazipur market fire

Sujoy’s organisation has rescued and released over a thousand birds so far from hunters. Photo: Courtesy

How decades of activism brought national recognition to Sherpur’s wildlife saviours

Birds including Lovebirds, Cockatiel, Bazrika, Diamond Dove and other species were burned to death. Photo: UNB

Hundreds of birds burnt in Jhenaidah shop fire

Photo: Courtesy

3 arrested with 697 slaughtered birds in Chattogram

The birds, identified as Jhut Shalik, were released back into their natural habitat in a beel (lake-like wetland). Photo: UNB

1,200 trapped birds rescued, freed in Bagerhat