Aasheesh Pittie is a birder, bibliographer, and author. He has compiled two bibliographies, Birds in Books: Three Hundred Years of South Asian Ornithology (2010), and The Written Bird: Birds in Books 2 (2022), and is the author of The Living Air: The Pleasures of Birds and Birdwatching (2023). He has also compiled a searchable bibliographic database of over 35,000 works on South Asian ornithology.