Nature’s Layers Unravelled – Encounters with birds, beasts, and relatives
What you missed while you were slaving away at the office If your office blocks the beautiful Internet that lies outside of your work network, and if you’re not too savvy about the whole proxy thing, you’ve probably missed out on an entire week’s worth of The Green Ogre. Fret…
Why call it a chestnut-tailed whatever when no one notices the colour of the tail? Bar-throated Siva? Ah, that’s another story.
On Father’s Day, we raise a toast to the best animal dads, but our top contender isn’t a bird! It might be just another Hallmark card red-letter day, but Father’s Day means a lot to us Ogres. And not just because we hold our own dads in great esteem. While…
It had given me the slip in Kutch, but in Oman I caught up with the Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin.
Photo: Beej The Green Ogre – Birds, Wildlife, Ecology and Nature notes from India.
If all goes well, The Green Ogre will hold its first-ever Monsoon Conclave at the Agumbe Rainforest Research Station from Saturday through Monday. Conclave is actually a dignified and rather hyperbolic term that describes the rare opportunity when all four (and now five) of us get together. Weather and luck…
Photograph: Sandeep Somasekharan The Green Ogre – Birds, Wildlife, Ecology and Nature notes from India.
Eucalyptus, exotic and introduced, has had a complex relationship with the Indian forest landscape, impacting biodiversity and the water table.
Is that a drongo? Or a cuckoo? Or a bit of both? Meet the Fork-tailed Drongo-cuckoo
A chance trip to Iruppu Falls at the foot of the Brahmagiri peak in southern Coorg brought back a rush of old trekking memories The falls, not yet at their most splendid, are captivating In 2006, a little after my broken humerus had regained its sense of humour, I ventured…
The Timber Depot in Dandeli presents a feast for both bird and birdwatcher, and then some rumination If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a…
The wind blew down from the hillock and hissed in my ear: “I am a rock” A stray spell of sun lit up Ramanagaram’s famous rocks It wasn’t a winter’s day, as Paul Simon would have had it. But it had rained all night and the morning presented a stipple…
Now that Osama bin Laden is dead, will America allow Afghanistan to lick its wounds and restore its natural heritage? In India, the wintering Siberian Crane has been missing in action for nearly a decade Afghanistan has always suffered for its place on the map. For millennia, before traders discovered…
When you can’t hug the whole tree, start with a new leaf Photograph: Beej The Green Ogre – Birds, Wildlife, Ecology and Nature notes from India.
