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Birds & Butterflies of West Bengal #YNWA

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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The yellow breasted chat was considered to be a wood warbler right?
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Era to chithi pathiye condemn korbe amake
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Day 5 of proving bird names makes no sense. The naming is all over the place for this fairly common north American warbler. A name is supposed to describe the species/paint anyone a mental picture easily. This species got its name for the shape of the nest it builds🤦🏻‍♂️ #birds #WhatWereTheyThinking
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Did you just write “I envied what he built” when all he built was a career out of hatred, homophobia, transphobia and racism? You envied that??
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
First ever record of Pectoral sandpiper from eastern India in its entirety. Photographed off the coast of Bay of Bengal in frazergunj by a team of 5 bird watchers at midday yesterday. Found roaming in a pond a bit away from the actual shore. This is a vagrant for India. Photograph off Facebook.
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Hoping to see this in Kolkata too
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Found some people really upset about a death across the world. More than a genocide actually. So it seems to be a good day to post this.
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Aesthetically speaking it’s good. But common name of a species is supposed to give one a mental image by being adequately descriptive. That’s the entire reason behind all of these bird names being weird
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Day 5 of proving bird names makes no sense. This is another interesting one. This fairly common Australian robin was called brown flycatcher till 1926. Then its name changed under colonialism supposedly due to its winter call. Now it’s a mob boss. Or a porn star. #birds #WhatWereTheyThinking
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Intellectual and moral rot has set in so deep in this country that a known YouTuber is defending corruption?? What???? These specimens are above and beyond the level of mockery and insults. I refuse to acknowledge them as humans anymore
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Is Corruption A Bad Thing? Economist Explains
YouTube video by Nikhil Kamath
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Yes
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Yes, eta ekta anek boro reason
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Yes. But there’s a bigger point here. This name hasn’t been revised in all these years. Hoche hobe kore chaliye jache
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Day 4 of proving bird names makes no sense. This is an interesting one. It was supposed to have a hummingbird added to its name at the end. But during some point, someone decided to omit it and that name have stuck since! Like what??? I give up🙏🏻 #birds #WhatWereTheyThinking
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Definitely not red-bellied woodpecker that’s for sure
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Ohh my god. A flycatcher is stuck with a depressing name because someone wrongly identified it instead of pewee. Talk about injustice😔
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Day 3 of proving bird names makes no sense. Like what is even this? Can you be any more literal?? #birds #WhatWereTheyThinking
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I started in uni. I used walk a lot so my roommate suggested why not play pokemon go because he knew I was a pokemon fan. Addicted to it since then but quit around 2years back because it became unplayable
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Last dutoi rakhbo🤣
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Please dadabhai suggest something nice. I’m absolutely stunned by the names
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
Saturday was sad. So happy Sunday? This west Mexican wren is unbothered by the world and permanently off sadness. Dat 2 of providing further proof that avian naming makes no sense.
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I uninstalled at level 44. There were even more kangaskhan if I spoofed
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I would’ve traded with you. Got three that way. My roommate used to spoof and caught about 14. Gave me 3 for some oddish😭
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
They threw appropriateness into the furnace. Also it seems so much like a scam!
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Is that fried chicken😭😭
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Who determines sadness of flies
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Sir “that bird looks kinda sad to let’s name him sad” is a loooong pipeline. Also flycatchers look like this, their entire personality is like this. If you see a grey-headed canary flycatcher in the wild, you would think the same too
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Okay then. Let’s start with this inexplicable name. A Jamaican flycatcher who is forbidden to be happy. This is one of those names that absolutely shut me up with the suddenness, the fact that it hasn’t been changed since is even more ridiculous. I would loveeee to know the lore behind its name
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I don’t need to do it in insta. I can do it here.
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Nomenclature of birds has been done so randomly that absolutely nothing makes sense. I can come up with screenshots I have acquired from ebird of random birds from all over the world which are atrocious
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
What does it tell about me if I had to look up gargoyle🥲
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
When Sylvia Plath wrote, “being born a woman is my awful tragedy”, the entire female population of the Indian subcontinent felt that personally
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Apart from this predatory behaviour, The most brainless use of AI is the implementation of AI chatbot in customer complaint section in literally every website. And more often than not, those said chatbots failing to address it if they find any issue at all in the first place
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
We can never ever thank Aaron properly. A system that led him to his death should always be degraded and looked down upon
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Apparently a slogan is a terrorism while this is not. On video, a rescue operation in a hospital is attacked. The level of war crime committed off video is not even comprehensible. The pattern of attacking the journalists, children, women, wounded are still the same months later. Ghouls.
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
NTCA on July 25th filed an affidavit in Bombay HC stating they were in process of strengthening the definition of tiger corridors based on various criteria. About a month later, they flipped on their own decision and included only the least cost tiger pathways. You can only laugh because logic🚀
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Neither they will progress nor will they let anyone progress! Sci-Hub has been ordered to be banned across India by a Delhi HC order. Entirely a section of Indian academia runs on scihub. The students who cannot afford subscription are gonna be left in the dark.
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Pedophilia used to be a career ended in any field let alone politics. Now it’s another promotion in Israel and govt coordinated escape plan from US. Unreal.
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Back from a field visit where I finally managed to photograph a chocolate albatross after years of seeing it, and well ignoring it. An incredibly common butterfly in the sub-mountainous regions of India. Their large scale mud puddling in riverbeds is a sight to behold. #butterfliesofindia
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
I thought frimpong was the Mo backup as slot said and did
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Until and unless Indy writes about this, it’s not true. But if a winger comes in, left or right wing?
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Fellas, is it unpatriotic to eat meat on Independence Day?
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Sorry the brick collection was conducted in full view of the govt? Everyone knew? And every single one of them thought it was a gimmick???
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Can you tell me how exactly that event came into fruition? Newspaper articles fails to catch the exact emotions or ground reality properly. What exactly happened and how was this even allowed?
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I’m really sorry. I actually have no idea what a torrid time it was back then. Us late 90’s kid had no idea what the country went through during Babri or Godhra (because I was still very young during Godhra)
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
No these are your regular lesser. Fulvous is bigger and has a white patch in the throat. If you find a flock, click the entire flock’s photo. You can see later
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Try and take a closer second look at the flocks. There might be fulvous whistling ducks with them
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
A part of society tried to stand up. They were intimidated, thrown to jail without trial or worse yet beaten up, even death in some cases. Umar Khalid is prime example. Every dissenting voice has been silenced. Do you remember the Rohingya immigrants being pushed out to sea? It was not even a story.
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Arka @lost-iora.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
It’s been rooted deep within from the older days. The saddest thing is that there is an active movement to take us back to that time in big 2025
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