Street-dog policy in India is barking up the wrong tree. Nature, 649, 1110 (2026). doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-00265-w
India’s 60 million street dogs are turning from village scavengers to city territory defenders. The Conversation. https://doi.org/10.64628/AB.4fjstyxpe
Moving Target (s): One Health at changing human-livestock-wildlife interfaces in tropical ecosystems. EcoEvoRxiv (PrePrint). https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/11204/
Dr. Nishant Kumar talks about the impact of 'de-extinction' into an existing ecosystem paradigm in context of gene-editing & synthetic biology.
Humans killed millions of vultures. As they vanished, dogs multiplied, and rabies spread. Now people are paying the price. Washington Post reports.
Barking up the wrong tree? Indian street dog woes are emblematic of ecological governance failures for multispecies coexistence. EcoEvoRxiv (PrePrint). https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/10786/
Going with, or going to the dogs: City Serenade of Multispecies Survival. EcoEvoRxiv (PrePrint). https://ecoevorxiv.org/repository/view/10708/
The Tiger’s Share: contrasting stripes of human, animal and environmental health in Amrit Kaal 2047. Stripes (Journal of the National Tiger Conservation Authority; Government of India).
The Indian street dog crisis and multispecies coexistence in tropical urban futures. Nature Cities: 3(8) https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-026-00476-2
Kumar, N. (2025). Birdstrikes: Why aeroecology should be aviation safety concern in India now more than ever?
Kumar, N., Gupta, U., Mehta, A., Malhotra, H. (2025). People, Animals and Waste Form Systemic Links Within Tropical Cities: Case of an Urban Raptor in Delhi, India. In: Angeoletto, F., Tryjanowski, P., Fellowes, M.D.E. (eds) Ecology of Tropical Cities, Volume I
Urvi Gupta, Nishant Kumar, Feathers, folklore, and eco-literacy: Stories ascribe cultural keystone status to avian scavengers in South Asian cities, Ornithological Applications
Bastian Thomsen , Kellen Copeland , Michael Harte , Olav Muurlink , Daniel A Villar , Benjamin H Mirin , Samuel R Fennell , Anant Deshwal , Payton Campbell , Ami Pekrul , Katie L Murtough , Apoorva Kulkarni , Nishant Kumar et al. Decolonizing bird knowledge: More-than-Western bird–human relations
Urban Commensalism & Aviation Safety: A Dynamic Approach to Birdstrike Mitigation - An Urban landscape Report for Pilot Environmental & Biodiversity Assessment at a Defence Establishment (Agra Region)
Kumar, N# “The Conference of the birds” and people in tropical megacities. In Ali Kazim: Suspended in Time. Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology
Sumasgutner, P., Buij, R., McClure, C. J., Shaw, P., Dykstra, C. R., Kumar, N., & Rutz, C. (2021). Raptor research during the COVID-19 pandemic provides invaluable opportunities for conservation biology
Kumar, N., Gupta, U., Jhala, Y. V., Qureshi, Q., Gosler, A. G., & Sergio, F. (2020). GPS-telemetry unveils the regular high-elevation crossing of the Himalayas by a migratory raptor: implications for definition of a “Central Asian Flyway”.
Kumar N, Gupta U, Jhala Y, Qureshi Q, Gosler A and Sergio F (2020) Cities: How Do Some Birds Thrive There? Frontier Young Minds.
Kumar, N., Singh, A., & Harriss-White, B. (2019). Urban waste and the human-animal interface in Delhi. Economic and Political Weekly
Kumar, N. (2019). Ecology and ethno-ornithology of Black Kites Milvus migrans in Delhi, India [PhD thesis]. University of Oxford.
Kumar, N., Gupta, U., Malhotra, H., Jhala, Y. V., Qureshi, Q., Gosler, A. G., & Sergio, F. (2019). The population density of an urban raptor is inextricably tied to human cultural practices.
Kumar, N., Jhala, Y. V., Qureshi, Q., Gosler, A. G., & Sergio, F. (2019). Human-attacks by an urban raptor are tied to human subsidies and religious practices.
Kumar, N., Qureshi, Q., Jhala, Y. V., Gosler, A. G., & Sergio, F. (2018). Offspring defense by an urban raptor responds to human subsidies and ritual animal-feeding practices.
Kumar, N., Gupta, U., Jhala, Y. V., Qureshi, Q., Gosler, A. G., & Sergio, F. (2018). Habitat selection by an avian top predator in the tropical megacity of Delhi: human activities and socio-religious practices as prey-facilitating tools
Kumar, N., Gosler, A. G., Sergio, F., Jhala, Y. V., & Qureshi, Q. (2016). Interplay of opportunities and challenges for urban Black Kites in Delhi, India. Conference Paper in Journal Urban Birds: Pressures, Processes and Consequences.
Sergio, F., Tavecchia, G., Tanferna, A., López Jiménez, L., Blas, J., De Stephanis, R., … & Hiraldo, F. (2015). No effect of satellite tagging on survival, recruitment, longevity, productivity and social dominance of a raptor, and the provisioning and condition of its offspring
Kumar, N., Mohan, D., Jhala, Y. V., Qureshi, Q., & Sergio, F. (2014). Density, laying date, breeding success and diet of Black Kites Milvus migrans govinda in the city of Delhi (India)
Kumar, N. (2013). A Study of Resource Selection by Black Kites (Milvus migrans) in the Urban Landscape of National Capital Region, India [M.Sc Dissertation].
Kumar, N., Mohan, D., Jhala, Y. V., Qureshi, Q., & Sergio, F. (2014). Density, laying date, breeding success and diet of Black Kites Milvus migrans govinda in the city of Delhi (India)
