Updated On: 19 January, 2014 09:54 AM IST | | Moeena Halim
<p>A two-year-long survey conducted by the Bombay Natural History Society’s Indian Bird Conservation Network has helped identify seven new Important Bird Areas (IBA) in Maharashtra. These spots, some home to endemic species, others to flocks of migratory birds, are in urgent need of protection and government attention</p>

When India’s foremost ornithologist Salim Ali conducted his groundbreaking bird surveys across several parts of the country in the 1930s, he had to rely on bullock carts and mules to take him to the hinterlands. Dr Raju Kasambe had it slightly easier. He was on a motorbike.

Great Pied Hornbill