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Raptor research during the COVID-19 pandemic provides invaluable opportunities for conservation biology (1)

April 28, 2021

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

Human-attacks by an urban raptor are tied to human subsidies and religious practices

September 29, 2020

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”.

frontiers for young minds (1)

April 22, 2020

Kumar N, Gupta U, Jhala Y, Qureshi Q, Gosler A and Sergio F (2020) Cities: How Do Some Birds Thrive There? Frontier Young Minds.

November 30, 2019

Kumar, N., Singh, A., & Harriss-White, B. (2019). Urban waste and the human-animal interface in Delhi. Economic and Political Weekly

April 30, 2019

Kumar, N. (2019). Ecology and ethno-ornithology of Black Kites Milvus migrans in Delhi, India [PhD thesis]. University of Oxford.

April 3, 2019

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.

Human-attacks by an urban raptor are tied to human subsidies and religious practices

February 22, 2019

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.

October 29, 2018

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.

urban ecosystems

December 18, 2017

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

April 7, 2016

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.

No effect of satellite tagging on survival, recruitment, longevity, productivity and social dominance of a raptor, and the provisioning and condition of its offspring (1)

August 4, 2015

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

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January 17, 2014

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)

M.Sc Dissertation

June 4, 2013

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].