Kishore is an ecologist who approaches every landscape through his own lens of observation. His curiosity took root in school, where he found himself questioning everything, how, when, where, and why, and that same restlessness carried him through his undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Wildlife Biology. What draws him to ecology is its scale, the way it reveals unexpected relationships from the smallest microhabitat to the widest ecosystem, and the promise of questions that no one has fully answered yet. Over the years he has worked across evergreen forests to sun-drenched coastlines, using birds as his focal lens to understand how these systems function. In effect, he has been learning ecology one species at a time, letting each new animal teach him something different about the landscape it inhabits. His broader goal as a researcher is to close gaps in what we know about behavioural evolution and to generate data that can genuinely shape conservation policy and adaptive management in the changing world. At CEGS, his focus is the trophic ecology of migratory shorebirds, using their long journey to understand the condition of the ecosystem they depend on. The environment here, and the researchers around him, keep pushing him to look past the data itself and see the larger story it tells.