India’s transition toward renewable energy has positioned solar power as the cornerstone of its climate and development agenda. By 2030, the country aims to achieve 500 GW of non-fossil fuel capacity, with large-scale solar parks proliferating across arid ecosystems such as Rajasthan and Gujarat. While solar expansion reduces dependence on fossil fuels, its ecological consequences for avifauna remain underexplored. Birds face direct threats from panel reflection (“lake effect”), collisions, and associated infrastructure, as well as indirect pressures from habitat fragmentation, altered microclimates, and disruption of migratory corridors. The Great Indian Bustard (Ardeotis nigriceps), a critically endangered species with fewer than 200 individuals, epitomizes this conflict between renewable energy growth and avian survival, as its range overlaps extensively with India’s renewable energy projects (The Hindu, 2019; Kumar et al., 2019) ^{[7, 12]}.