Dr. Navtej Kohli Blog

Navtej Kohli is an avid birder. Below are some useful birding slang complied by Navtej Kohli for those who have just started to gain their birding wings.

Bird watching as a hobby is taking a flight amid nature lovers. Avid birders are acquainted with the intricate terminology of bird watching, better known as birding slang, but beginners usually get confused on hearing these unfamiliar words. So, if you are about to take bird watching as a hobby, you must at least know some basic terms and their meanings:
1. Tick: any species that you spot should wind up on your birding list, and those species that you have never seen before will wind up on your “tick list.” There are various types of tick lists ranging from “garden ticks” to “trip ticks,” but the idea here is to note anything new.

2. Lifer: if you spot a lifer, you are truly blessed. A “lifer” is a bird that you have never laid eyes on before. Lifers cannot include birds that you have seen while traveling, and they must be birds that you never thought you would lay eyes upon.

3. Sibe: a “sibe” is a bird that usually resides in Siberia, but during a flight this type of bird became lost and wound up near your home. The interesting thing is that sibes usually go unnoticed, since these birds are usually rather plain to look at.

4. BOP: a BOP is easily identifiable as a “bird of prey,” but many people hardly notice them at all when they are soaring hundreds of feet in the air. Birds of prey are truly magnificent animals, so keep your eyes towards the sky for your next BOP sighting.

5. Seawatching: this type of birding really takes a lot of patience. Seawatching is, exactly, as it sounds - watching for birds while sitting near the sea. Seawatchers spend hours perched upon a rocky cliff in order to spot rare birds, and most of the time seawatchers usually wind up spend the day alongside a seagull or two.

However, you don’t need to learn these terms by heart, but it’s just that you should know some most common words. Though the words mentioned above are some of the more common terms, there are literally hundreds of other bird watching terms out there, so don’t worry about memorizing all of them. As with any other sport, birders are rather proud of their exclusive world, so it only makes sense that there are numerous words to go along with the many magnificent birds that exist on the planet.

If you are a Movie buff and horror movies amuse you, then this post on  Dr. Navtej Kohli blog might interest you. Navtej Kohli is a discerning horror freak, below are enlisted some of his favorite horror movies. Watch it and let the chill run through your spine.

•  Psycho (1960)
• Alien (1979)
• Shining, The (1980)
• Aliens (1986)
• Diaboliques, (1955)
• Jaws (1975)
• Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
• Thing, The (1982)
• Frankenstein (1931)
• Jungfrukällan (1960)
• Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
• Exorcist, The (1973)
• Innocents, The (1961)
• Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
• Grindhouse (2007)
• Dead of Night (1945)
• Dead Man’s Shoes (2004)
• Shaun of the Dead (2004)
• The Grudge (2004)
• Repulsion (1965)
• Night of the Living Dead (1968)
• Dawn of the Dead (1978)
• Batoru rowaiaru (2000)
• Zodiac (2007/I)
• Halloween (1978)
• What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
• Holy Mountain, The (1973)
• Haunting, The (1963/I)
• Evil Dead II (1987)
• Abre los ojos (1997)
• Survive Style 5+ (2004)
• Misery (1990)

Dr. Navtej Kohli blog is back with another sarcastic bit of medical humor.

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Navtej Kohli shares a few good reading resources on the Indian Birds.

Common Birds of India
Asad R. Rahmani

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of India
Amano Samarpan

Birds of Himalaya and Kashmir
Douglas Dewar

Birds of Prey of the Indian Subcontinent
Rishad Naoroji

Dr. Navtej Kohli’s List of reading resources features books from the 19th Century:

Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Balzac, Eugènie Grande
Browning (Robert), Poems
Byron, Poems
Chekhov, Plays
Darwin, The Origin of Species
Dickens, David Copperfield
Dickinson, Poems
Dostoevski, The Brothers Karamazov
Eliot, Middlemarch
Emerson, Essays
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Goethe, Faust
Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
Hugo, Les Misèrables
Ibsen, Dramas
Keats, Poems
Marx, Capital
Melville, Moby Dick
Nietzsche, The Will to Power
Poe, Stories
Shelley, Poems
Stendhal, The Red and the Black
Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Thoreau, Walden
Tolstoi, War and Peace
Twain, Huckleberry Finn
Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Wordsworth, Poems
Zola, Germinal

Dr’s Mayo - The legendary Biography of Dr. William and James Mayo, the Mayo Brothers who had changed the history of medical practice in America. I recommend this book to all the doctors and medical students for atleast one read.

“Dr. Navtej Kohli has taken up a new hobby”- that is what my neighbors feel. But for me it is more than just a hobby, my winged friends have taught me a thing or two about life.I personally feel butterfly gardening has become one of the most interesting hobbies today. Nothing can match up the pleasure that a beautiful butterfly can bring to your garden. To make your garden butterfly-friendly, you can follow some basic tips:

First and foremost, you should know which butterflies are in your area. This can be achieved by spending some time outdoors to get a clearer idea about the species. Reading good books can also help. I’ll try to post some good reading resources.

The butterfly garden should be placed in a sunny location for a few hours, as butterflies like to bask in the sun but they need to be sheltered from the winds. Butterflies need the sun to warm themselves, but they won’t want to feed in an area where they are constantly fighting the wind to stay on the plants. Placing a few flat stones in your garden is a good idea as the butterflies can take a break while warming up.

Butterflies require water just like we do. Keep a water resource handy and have great fun with the most beautiful creation of God!

Navtej Kohli compiles a list of  famous quotes that have been cropping up since the past few days leading to a War of Words between Indians and Australians on and off the cricket field.

• “The first time I ever met him he was the same little obnoxious weed that he is now.” - Matthew Hayden on his “good friend” Harbhajan Singh.
• “He is just young. I have said to him many times, ‘You are 19, take it easy’. At the end of the day you are 19, why don’t you just worry about your bowling for a while?” - Matthew Hayden at his best..this time its Ishant Sharma.

But this one figures right up there in Navtej Kohli’s list:

• “It’s great to play for Mumbai along with Sachin, but it would have been a lot nicer if we had Symonds, who is such a wonderful player.” - Harbhajan Sigh says regretfully!!!