The Black-rumped flameback (Dinopium benghalense), also known as the lesser Golden-backed woodpecker or Lesser goldenback had visited me before my favourite neighbourhood greenspot was lost forever. I wrote about this in the Hindustan times- “Very efficiently, nearly 60 trees were slaughtered and chopped… A small-sized bird sanctuary was turned into a barren piece of land.”
https://www.hindustantimes.com/books/essay-my-feathered-friends-are-homeless-101669300292842.html
