Greater Flamingo

Amit Kumar, a PhD scholar, has one pet peeve: the humans of the National Capital Region of Delhi are completely ignorant to the existence of a year-round bird neighbor: the Greater Flamingo. As Delhi and its satellite cities and suburbs hurtle towards almost-apocalyptic levels of urbanization – usurped, encroached lands and smokey, blustering air – Dr. Kumar feels an added urgency to illustrate to locals how the Greater Flamingo isn’t a migratory guest, who could easily alter routes and stopover elsewhere in cleaner, greener pastures, but one of their own, a fragile species who is choking under the weight of hyper-industrialization and climate change. This is their home too, and being neither recognized as native, nor protected as part of the region's once-ample flora and fauna, the threat to the flamingo has never been greater.