The Black Drongo

A rhyme-comic on the Black Drongo- one of the most fearless birds! The drongo's habit of mobbing birds of prey has in fact, earned it several vernacular nicknames, such as 'Kotwal', meaning policeman in Marathi! 

The comic appears in my column with Sunday Mid-day.

Prints of the comic are available on my webstore here. (For orders within India, mail me on rohanchakcartoonist@gmail.com.)

Identifying a Pipit

Fellow-birders will relate. For non-birders, here's a compilation of some pictures of Pipits I've taken. 

Pipits are a genus of slender-bodied, generally long-tailed, ground-feeding, drab-looking insectivorous birds that are an amateur birdwatcher's nightmare! Classified in the genus Anthus, they ALL LOOK THE SAME! Leaving the problems pipits cause to birdwatchers aside, the perform excellent pest control services in grasslands and are extremely efficient insect killers. Pipits in turn are food for raptors such as harriers and falcons, and are hence a very important grassland/ open country species.