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Nature’s Layers Unravelled – Encounters with birds, beasts, and relatives

Tag: Beach

Encounter – African Coral-rag Skink

Encounter – African Coral-rag Skink

Bijoy VenugopalApril 24, 2023November 15, 2024

The harsh habitat of the Zanzibar coastline shelters a uniquely adapted reptile, the African Coral-rag Skink

Slumbering Giants – Northern Elephant Seals of Point Reyes

Slumbering Giants – Northern Elephant Seals of Point Reyes

Sandeep SomasekharanJune 15, 2015June 16, 2015

Epiphany on wandering into a gentlemen’s club of sexually exhausted Northern Elephant Seals on a beach in Point Reyes

A White-bellied Sea Eagle fishes for compliments

A White-bellied Sea Eagle fishes for compliments

Anand YegnaswamiJune 11, 2015June 11, 2015

A White-bellied Sea Eagle won’t make that astronomical push without a gastronomical pull and this one had no apparent interest in playing the avian Sisyphus.

Morning Raga by the Kentish Plover

Morning Raga by the Kentish Plover

Sandeep SomasekharanJanuary 15, 2014January 18, 2015

On the first day of 2014, we found this adorable Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) in half minds whether to sing or not. Warm sunshine, sandy beaches and blue skies – who wouldn’t want to?

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