Ramana Athreya

Ramana Athreya is a birdwatcher and an astronomer at the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, Pune, India which is the radio astronomy group of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. [ [http://ncra.tifr.res.in/ncra_hpage/staff/academic.html Academic Staff at NCRA ] ] In 2006, he described a new species of bird, the Bugun Liocichla from the Eaglenest Wildlife Sanctuary in western Arunachal Pradesh, North-east India. This discovery has been described by Birdlife as the most sensational ornithological discovery in India for more than half a century. [http://www.birdlife.org/news/pr/2006/09/bugun_liocichla.html Birdlife press release] ]

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