Small birds evolve different strategies and tactical manoeuvres to escape the clutches of the dreaded, common hawk of Tricity gardens, the Shikra. A common myna had much to thank the community of ...

For award-winning bird photographer and Sector 17 apparel retailer Anuj Jain golden moments to photograph a resident hawk, the Shikra, on a rare pigeon kill were curtailed by a bumbling brace of beat ...

A quiet bird otherwise, the breeding season awakens the vocal chords of the Shikras like never before. Emitting the ‘advertisement’ calls, the mates chase each other at high speed in undulating ...

The common, pugnacious and agile hawk, the Shikra, is likened as the winged ‘leopard’ of bungalow gardens because of its shikari prowess and reliance on trees. But the similarity does not end here.

The talents of the Shikra ( Accipiter badius) have long been known. Great courage, coupled with intellect as a hunter, making it one of the easiest to train and tame (this is illegal now), made the ...

Nature has its own doppelgangers. Just like the rat snake is often mistaken for the cobra and even done to death on account of that, there exists a bird that is often confused with the shikra – that ...