Neighbird: A Documentary on Urban Wildlife

It’s not often that your understanding of the place you live in is completely turned on its head. But that’s what happened to us. When we were forced to lock down in March 2020, we finally slowed down enough to pay attention to life right outside our little Gurgaon apartment. We discovered that for years we’d been living in an incredibly biodiverse region of the world. But we’d never noticed it before. We discovered that even within one square kilometer, we were able to spot incredible biodiversity like red-wattled lapwings, cattle egrets, coucals, koels and more. Now, almost 2 years after the pandemic began, we’re so excited to share our journey of learning how to see our world in a completely different way in Neighbird, The Documentary.

Manon Verchot

Manon is a multimedia journalist and co-founder of InOldNews, the organization that runs Neighbird. She formerly headed video at Mongabay, Hindustan Times and Mint.

Sanshey Biswas

Starting his career as a print journalist in '14 at a weekly newspaper in India, he quickly gravitated to working on the digital side. He is a self-taught multimedia journalist who loves to learn from and with his colleagues spread across the globes.