Salim Ali — English Wikipedia

Encyclopedia article on Salim Ali (1896–1987), the Indian ornithologist known as the Birdman of India: his Bombay upbringing, his work at the Bombay Natural History Society, the Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan, and his autobiography The Fall of a Sparrow.

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