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What does peregrinator mean? #

Peregrinator refers to one of two things, both of which I had in mind while selecting the name. I had initially wanted to go with Lammergeier (the German name for the Bearded Vulture) but then it was taken on most platforms. Peregrinator is the subspecies name for the Shaheen Falcon (Falco peregrinus peregrinator — you might have to scroll down here.) It is a beautiful falcon with a dark back and upper-wings, a white throat, and vivid rufous underparts. It has a typical dark “helmet” as seen in the photo. Juveniles have incomplete hemlets and are a paler shade of rufous. Shaheen Bagh also happens to be the name of the place chosen by the people protesting the unjust implementation of the CAA and NRC in 2019. The word peregrinator itself comes from Latin and is synonymous with traveller or wanderer.

Shaheen Falcon with a Parakeet kill. Photo by Gnanaskandan Kesavabharathi. July 2016, Chennai outskirts.

About me #

Author wearing a red t-shirt with their hair down

I’m a 29 year old, neurodivergent, cat person who sometimes cosplays as an ecologist. I’m big on F(L)OSS and currently run a Void Linux installation with a manually compiled version of Emacs 29. I also play the guitar, listen to typically a lot of metal and try to make my own music occasionally. I currently use Ardour 7.0 for audio production, which I’m very new to, and hope to get started with the Sonic Pi as both a standalone instrument as well as a synth for instruments I don’t play myself. I also travel a lot for work and end up visiting a lot of new places while I’m working. I will be starting working on maintaining a log of that too sometime soon on this blog. Especially the birding reports with links to eBird checklists since I’m in the habit of maintaining them.

A white and gray cat with pale green eyes — Goose V. Photo by Brihadeesh S, Jan 2023

I have a cat at home and she’s called Goose V. Goose the Fifth since there have been four “Geese” before her. She’s predominantly a stray that just comes and hangs out at our place, but I hope to adopt her soon. She loves to be indoors, especially in the winters since it gets cold and she needs additional warmth. She doesn’t mind jumping up next to me on the chair or on the bed even. At night sometimes, she even likes to sleep next to me. She’s a talkative cat and often gets very aggressive with the head bumps and the purring. She does get quite loud too at times, especially when I per her on her lower back, which she loves, incidentally. Occasionally, shes so calm that she lets me scratch her belly too, and this is rare apparently.

The blog #

This is a static website and is intended to be the home for my blog, Emacs configuration and work updates. The blog is written and entirely works out of my Emacs! Everything you see here was written in Org-mode on Emacs, exported to markdown via ox-hugo for better compatibility - the default go-org parser doesn’t appear to handle Org syntax adequately. Read more about my blogging flow on my post about it.

I initially used a very basic blog-centric layout based off the Etch theme, a simple dark theme with just a list of posts on the homepage. In 2023, I switched to a theme-agnostic setup based on Drew Devault’s blog because it just looked so good in a ridiculously minimal sense that appeals only to someone a little obsessively retro. This served me well and I had published this as a Sourcehut page. It took me until early this year to switch to this domain. and I have since moved to a personalised version of the Congo theme. The source for this website is on my Github and Sourcehut.

Contact #

I can be emailed at contact [at] peregrinator.site or through Bluesky [at] peregrinator.site. Support me at buymeacoffee.

Publications #

A contribution on morphology and distribution of the Rock Toad Duttaphrynus hololius (Günther, 1876) with first report on deformity, calling and breeding behaviours (Amphibia: Anura: Bufonidae)