April Fooled: A drongo’s spot of bother!
The thin line between beautification and photo-manipulation can get troublesome… if the culprit manipulates the vital evidence! Continue reading April Fooled: A drongo’s spot of bother!
The thin line between beautification and photo-manipulation can get troublesome… if the culprit manipulates the vital evidence! Continue reading April Fooled: A drongo’s spot of bother!
In the Polachira wetlands of Kollam, southern Kerala, the sight of a White Stork, a winter visitor increasingly hard to come by in the subcontinent, fills the mind with memories seen and imagined Continue reading Encounter: White Storks wintering in Polachira
It’s Wildlife Weekend. Download this Cat Snake, our October calendar-wallpaper, for your desktop and iPad! Continue reading Miaow! Hiss! Download the October wallpaper
September fluttered in a tad late for us Ogres. But there’s more than 20 days left to enjoy this wallpaper. Download and share. Continue reading September is here, download the wallpaper!
What is Onam without its leitmotif — the Onathumbi or Picture Wing Dragonfly? Continue reading Onathumbi: Onam with the Picture Wing Dragonfly!
The Vembanad Lake in Alleppey, once praised by Lord Curzon as the “Venice of the East”, is a Ramsar Wetland and a Birdlife Important Bird Area. But those tags have not stopped greedy and exploitative tour operators from turning it into a sickening playground of hooligans and a dumping ground for trash. Here’s a horror story that will turn Stephen King’s stomach. Continue reading All is not well with Alleppey
Married to foaming mountain streams, the Plumbeous Water Redstart is a constant companion to the trekker in the Himalaya. As cattle egrets are to grazing bovids, mynahs to figs, and flowerpeckers to Singapore cherries, Plumbeous Water Redstarts (Rhyacornis fuliginosa) are married to Himalayan streams. Continue reading Encounter – Plumbeous Water Redstart
Intrigued by ladybirds? Don’t miss this free wallpaper When was the last time you were intrigued by a ladybird? Not the children’s books, though your recollection of that memory might provide the answer to our question. Most adults can’t remember … Continue reading Download the Green Ogre Calendar Wallpaper for July
After every birding trip there is always one bird that occupies our thoughts after we return. For me, it was the Yellow-billed Blue Magpie As a voracious reader of Tintin, my first impression of a magpie was a rather plain, … Continue reading Encounter – Yellow-billed Blue Magpie
It was early days when I still hadn’t started birding seriously. A fun trip with some friends to Edamuri falls, near Mysore, more of a ‘get your feet wet’ trip. As we stood along the shore of the irrigation channel, taking … Continue reading Encounter – Common Kingfisher
It’s already June, eh? We’re pretty hung-over, having just returned from the Great Himalayan National Park, where we spent most of the last week of May … Continue reading Download the June calendar wallpaper!
To download this file, just enter your email address and you will receive the download link by email. [download file=”http://greenogreindia.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/MayWallpaper.jpg”] If you have trouble receiving the … Continue reading The Green Ogre Calendar Wallpaper for May!
The red-and-black seeds frequently used in the indoor games of my childhood, I learned recently, are deadly poisonous. Introducing the pretty and dangerous Rosary Pea or … Continue reading Indian Licorice – Black-eyed beads of death
Devoid of flower through the year it is like any other tree pale of trunk and green of leaf. But come March, when the Flame of the Forest burns up the landscape for far furlongs, its incendiary sight you can … Continue reading Burning Bright – In praise of the Flame of the Forest
My love of owls has made me peer into abandoned quarries, tree hollows, rafters of old barns, and dilapidated houses. Last year, I watched three Indian Eagle Owl chicks grow from featherballs to subadults. We waited a whole year to … Continue reading Two hoots in a deserted quarry