India, May 30 -- In March 2024, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of India comprising then Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud, J B Pardiwala, and Manoj Misra handed down a judgment that put a bird - the Great Indian Bustard (GIB) - at the centre of a debate about birds, solar panels, and the Constitution. [M K Ranjitsinh v Union of India Writ Petition (Civil) No 838 of 2019, 2024 INSC 280 (SC, 21 March 2024)]. The GIB is critically endangered. The International Union for Conservation of Nature estimates only 50 to 249 mature individuals survive in the wild, mostly in Rajasthan. Due to their poor frontal vision, birds have been known to die when they fly directly into overhead electrical transmission cables. In an attempt to add...