Ramana Athreya

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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.[1] 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.[2]

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  1. ^ Academic Staff at NCRA
  2. ^ Birdlife press release
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