Dr. Navtej Kohli Blog

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. 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!