Swati Sidhu

Project Manager, Education and Public Engagement

M.Sc. in Environmental Biology

I joined Nature Conservation Foundation in 2007. During my time with NCF, I have worked with three different programmes. In the Anamalai Hills with the Western Ghats programme, I spent my time observing hunting parties of birds and studying aspects of leopard biology that may reflect the nature of their relationship with people. In 2011, I joined the Eastern Himalaya programme to explore the relationship between plants and their less obvious agents of seed dispersal and predation, the forest rodents. I am currently working with the Education and Public Engagement team on SeasonWatch project.

Projects

Publications

Journal Article

2021

Using citizen science to build baseline data on tree phenology (2021)

Popular Article

2019

Do you know these 10 common trees

Popular Article

2019

Tracking trees through the seasons

Popular Article

2019

A bygone pastime

Popular Article

2019

Trees and seasons in a changing world

It is migration time for the Common emigrant

Popular Article

2019

Butterfly migration through a metropolis

Book Chapter

2018

Public Participation in Understanding Biodiversity

Journal Article

2017

Conflict to coexistence: Human – leopard interactions in a plantation landscape in Anamalai Hills, India

Popular Article

2016

The land of travelling falcons

Dataset

2015

Data from: Does mixed-species flocking influence how birds respond to a gradient of land-use intensity? Proceedings of the Royal Society B

Popular Article

2015

Hornbill hills: the protector

Popular Article

2015

Hornbill hills: the hunter

Journal Article

2015

Prey abundance and leopard diet in a plantation and rainforest landscape, Anamalai Hills, Western Ghats

Journal Article

2015

Does mixed-species flocking influence how birds respond to a gradient of land-use intensity?

Journal Article

2015

Tracking seed fates of tropical tree species: evidence for seed caching in a tropical forest in north-east India

Report

2015

Hornbill Watch Report June 2014 to May 2015

Dataset

2015

Data from: Tracking seed fates of tropical tree species: evidence for seed caching in a tropical forest in north-east India.

Journal Article

2014

The response of birds and mixed-species bird flocks to human-modified landscapes in Sri Lanka and southern India

Report

2013

Hornbills, rats, seeds and rainforest trees: plant-animal interactions and plant demography

Popular Article

2012

The talking tree

Popular Article

2012

The incredible adventures of a seed

Report

2011

People and predators: Leopard diet and interactions with people in a tea plantation dominated landscape in the Anamalai Hills, Western Ghats.

Journal Article

2010

Effects of plantations and home-gardens on tropical forest bird communities and mixed-species bird flocks in the southern Western Ghats.

Popular Article

2010

The Journey of a Rainforest seed