The brown shrike ( Lanius cristatus cristatus) is ironically the shrike that seems to be most at home in and around Chennai, though it hardly has its hearth in these parts. A winter visitor, the brown ...

As soon as the bird flew up onto the fence, I knew it was something special. The long tail and black highwayman's mask, combined with a pearl-grey head and russet back, made it easy to identify as a ...