Nature’s Layers Unravelled – Encounters with birds, beasts, and relatives
Bar-headed Geese are masters of pranayama, making use of atmospheric oxygen like few other birds can. In that sense, they are true yogis, and making a journey to see them is akin to a pilgrimage.
There are no ugly ducklings. And here’s proof! Just one look at these adorable young Indian Spot-billed Ducks and you’ll want to adopt them
Little Grebes are tiny wetland birds specially adapted for diving in search of food. Each dive can last up to 30 seconds!
Pheasant-tailed Jacanas exhibit polyandry, a reversal of sexual roles in which a female courts and maintains a harem of males
Black-winged Stilts are anxious parents, always patrolling their nesting sites. Predators get a brutal sendoff.
That’s the way a wetland dies. It desiccates and seeps into memory, and then awaits a rain of retrospective wisdom that may never come.
