Email: aasheesh@indianbirds.in Website: www.aasheeshpittie.in
Education:
B.Com. (Osmania University, Hyderabad.)
Honorary Positions:
Indian Representative: International Ornithological Committee (2006- ).
Indian Representative: Royal Naval Birdwatching Society (2006- ).
Honorary Secretary: Hyderabad Nature Club (1979–1981).
Honorary Secretary: Birdwatchers’ Society of Andhra Pradesh (1997–2004).
Member: Salim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History (?-2005).
Member: Board of Governors, Environmental Protection & Training Research Institute, Hyderabad [EPTRI] (2002–2005).
Member: Advisory Committee, Bombay Natural History Society (2004–).
Member: Library Sub-committee, Bombay Natural History Society (2004–).
Member: World Wide Fund for Nature-India, Andhra Pradesh State Committee.
Editing, etc.
Black Buck : Newsletter of the Hyderabad Nature Club (1980-81; Editor).
Mayura : Bi-annual journal of the Birdwatchers’ Society of Andhra Pradesh (1983- ; Editor).
Pitta : Monthly bulletin of the Birdwatchers’ Society of Andhra Pradesh (1987-2002; Editor).
Zoos’ Print Journal (2000-2003; Referee for Ornithological papers).
Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (2004- ; member of editorial board). Newsletter for Ornithologists (2004. Editor).
Indian Birds (2005- ; Editor).
Select Publications:
A checklist of birds of Andhra Pradesh (1989): (co-authored and co-published with Siraj A. Taher).
Nomenclature of birds of the Indian Subcontinent. A review of some changes taking place. (1993): (co-authored with Andrew Robertson and published by Ornithological Society of India.)
A bibliographic index to the ornithology of the Indian region - Part I. (1995): publications covered: Stray Feathers (1873-1881) vols. 1-10 & Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society (1886-1993) vols. 1-90.
Standardised common and scientific names of the birds of the Indian Subcontinent. Buceros 6 (1): i-ix, 1-37. 2001. (With Ranjit Manakadan.)
A bibliographic index to the ornithology of the Indian Subcontinent. (2001): CD-ROM based database. Published by the author.
Standardised common and scientific names of the birds of the Indian Subcontinent. Newsletter for Birdwatchers 42 (3) (May-June): 1+i-viii, 1-36. 2002. (With Ranjit Manakadan.)
On the dates of publication of the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, volumes I-100 (1886-2003), and other matters. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 100 (2&3) (23 September): 589-613. 2003.
A bibliographic index to the birds of South Asia . (2004): 3 rd edition. CD-ROM based database. Published by the author.
A dictionary of scientific bird names originating from the Indian region. Buceros 9 (2): 1-30. 2004.
A bibliography of the Anatidae of south Asia. Buceros 9 (3): 2 ll., pp. 1-90. 2005. (2004).
The dating of names proposed in the first Supplement to Thomas Jerdon’s Catalogue of the birds of the peninsula of India. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 61 (4): 214-224. 2004. (With Edward C. Dickinson, Murray Bruce, Steven Gregory, and Alan P. Peterson.)
Besides these, is the author of several hundred popular articles, short notes and papers in newspapers, popular science / nature magazines, newsletters, journals, etc. |
