Encounter: The Indian Desert Jird
The Indian Desert Jird, a diurnal rodent, lives in huge colonies and is a great food source for desert cats, jungle cats, jackals, mongooses and raptors.
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Encounter – Black Francolin
All right, shoot me. I have never had any luck with the Black Francolin.
Encounter: The insectivorous Pitcher Plant
If Ram Gopal Varma had imagination, he’d make a movie on insectivorous Pitcher plants. One helluva motion picture, that’d be
Encounter: The Brain Fever bird
When I was a child, the Brain Fever Bird was one of my mystery birds. Its plaintive call, rising to a feverish crescendo, kept me awake on many moonlit nights. I was to encounter the bird again, and again, and again, and each time the story wedged itself deeper in my imagination
A wild goose chase with a happy ending
A fascinating story of bird migration has come to light, involving a Bar-Headed Goose (Anser indicus), which was recently photographed near Somnathpur in Karnataka. On December 26, 2007, Niranjan M. posted a picture of a flock of bar-headed geese at a lake near Somnathpur. One individual in the flock bore…
Brian May shreds whaling
Via Google Reader: Join Brian May against whaling via Madame Arcati by Madame Arcati on 11/30/07 One of the better celebrity blogs is Brian May’s. The Queen star posts regularly and actually interacts with his audience – and I’m impressed by his recent outspoken attack on the resumption of whaling…
Muthodi Bird List
Sept. 30 – Oct. 2, 2008 Alpine Swift (Tachymarptis melba) Ashy Woodswallow (Artamus fuscus) Bar-winged Flycatcher Shrike (Hemipus picatus) Black Eagle (Ictinaetus malayensis) Black-crested Bulbul (Ruby Throated) – (Pycnonotus melanicterus gularis) Black-headed Cuckooshrike (Coracina melanoptera) Black-lored Tit (Parus xanthogenys) Blue-bearded Bee Eater (Nyctyornis athertoni) Bronzed Drongo (Dicrurus aeneus) Chestnut-headed Bee…
RIP Charles Lee Remington
The man whose breath is the breathing of small white butterflies… – Erica Jong, The Man Under the Bed It’s not often that we see the Page Three element in the life of a biologist elbowing into the foreground. But more people are likely to remember Charles Lee Remington for…
Will Sultanpur go to the dogs?
It was in March last year that I stole a trip to Sultanpur, a few minutes by road past Gurgaon, Haryana. It seemed every bit like the wetlands of my dreams. It was the end of a prolonged winter, and the last stragglers — shovellers and gadwalls — were rehearsing…
Quick note from Horsley Hills – Watch the video
From The Green Ogre archives, before digital video really caught on and became a thing – here are a bunch of quick nature notes from Horsley Hills
100 tigers, but where’s the forest?
The Chinese, in all their ecological ignorance, have reason to be proud. After systematically decimating all things living from their once-bountiful land, they now expect to be felicitated for their ‘conservation’ efforts. China announced on May 22 that it expects the birth of 100 Siberian Tigers at the Manchurian Tiger…
Death to Diclofenac
The ban of the veterinary drug Diclofenac comes as a relief to conservationists. The drug, administered to domestic cattle and water buffalo, has been blamed for the Great Asian Vulture Crisis. Diclofenac enters the food chain when vultures feed on livestock carcasses, causing kidney failure. Ornithologists the world over have…
California dreaming with gulls and squirrels
At a viewpoint on the California coast, we stopped for a bite, and got more than we could chew.
Iruppu-Brahmagiri on foot
Birdsong brings comfort to tired trekkers ascending to the heights of Brahmagiri in the Western Ghats
