Tree-nesting Ducks

April 01, 2021

Ducks. For most, including birdwatchers, the moment the word is heard, we are compelled to imagine a waterbody where one can see these birds swimming/floating on the water. True. Ducks […]

Seethanadi: lowland forests and a river

April 01, 2021

150 metres – that’s what the altimeter read as we turned off the road into Seethanadi Nature Camp. The descent from Agumbe (at 823 metres) had indeed been quite rapid. […]

Discovering Wetlands

March 15, 2021

The average world-weary human has discovered the pleasures of travelling – they look forward to weekends in the hope of enjoying exciting destinations. Sometimes an architectural delight awaits; sometimes a […]

Moths by the Ripples

March 01, 2021

A ‘plop’ on my head and I looked up as a seed from the Ziziphus glabrata tree dropped on me. There it was, a greyish blackish furry animal perched right […]

Prinias of Karnataka

March 01, 2021

We moved to our house in Bangalore in 1992. This was before the city began growing vertically with multi-storeyed apartments, but was still growing horizontally by converting peri-urban marshes, lakes […]

A Tale of Predators, Prey and Parasites

February 15, 2021

A few years ago, I was observing a Common Mormon (Papilio polytes) butterfly pupa on a curry leaf tree (Murraya koenigii), or kari bevu as it is called in Kannada, […]

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