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    Beach thick-knee – A crabby tale

Beach thick-knee – A crabby tale

By Santhosh|2019-01-11T22:04:26+00:00January 11th, 2019|Birding, Photo Essay, Photography, Travel, Wildlife|

Beach thick-knee, also known as the Beach stone-curlew is a large, ground dwelling bird found in the islands of South-east Asia and Australia. Even though it is seen over a widespread area, the bird is [...]

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    Dance of the cranes

Dance of the cranes

By Santhosh|2018-12-01T08:31:43+00:00November 30th, 2018|Birding, Nature, Photo Essay, Photography, Travel, Wildlife|

Sarus cranes are beautiful, majestic birds found in parts of the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and Australia. They are one of the tallest of flying birds, growing to a height of around 5ft 11" (1.8m). [...]

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    Hard working dads of the natural world

Hard working dads of the natural world

By Santhosh|2018-12-20T17:05:31+00:00July 11th, 2018|Birding, Macros, Nature, Photo Essay, Photography|

A few weeks back was Father's day. When my daughters wished me with a lovely card they had made, it got me thinking. There are so many hard at work dads in the natural world [...]

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    Great Hornbills – Courtship

Great Hornbills – Courtship

By Santhosh|2018-06-08T21:10:52+00:00June 3rd, 2018|Birding, Nature, Photo Essay, Photography, Travel|

Great Hornbills are majestic, large sized birds of the high canopied rainforests, across the South and Southeast Asia. It is one of the larger species of hornbills, growing to be anywhere between 3 & 4 [...]

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    Elephant – swimming across for love

Elephant – swimming across for love

By Santhosh|2018-04-27T20:39:42+00:00April 27th, 2018|Nature, Photo Essay, Photography, Travel|

Elephants can swim. I had heard and read about that. The sea faring elephants of the Andamans and Sri Lanka are very well known. Legends like the elephant named Rajan, of the Andamans, was featured [...]

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    The raider and the myna

The raider and the myna

By Santhosh|2017-09-07T18:43:25+00:00September 7th, 2017|Nature, Photo Essay, Photography|

While ambling along the backwaters, winding through the magical mangroves of Sundarbans, we moved past a dry stump of a tree. Something caught our eyes. There was something, like a tail, dangling down from the [...]

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    Flocking – birds in groups

Flocking – birds in groups

By Santhosh|2017-01-12T18:53:49+00:00December 22nd, 2016|Birding, Nature, Photo Essay, Photography|

Flock generally refers to a group of individuals that gather together with some purpose. Flocking is the behaviour of forming such flocks. In the animal kingdom, it is very common to find such groups. Many individuals [...]

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    Indian Rock Python and a Langur

Indian Rock Python and a Langur

By Santhosh|2017-01-12T18:54:10+00:00November 23rd, 2015|Nature, Photo Essay, Photography|

There is a general expression which says, “Kabini never disappoints". Don't know how many will agree with that, though :-) May be true to a certain extent, if one goes there with, not just the [...]

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    Ant mimic spider – A fight for the right to mate

Ant mimic spider – A fight for the right to mate

By Santhosh|2017-01-12T18:54:16+00:00October 19th, 2015|Macros, Nature, Photo Essay, Photography|

Jumping spiders are very notorious, stealthy hunters and they have evolved some very effective mechanisms to protect themselves from predation. One such, is to mimic ants. Ant mimicry, or myrmecomorphy, is a phenomenon in which arthropods develop [...]

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