Oriental White-eye, Coorg If you were a convoy of industrious insects going about your lawful business in the leafy channels of Coorg,...

Indian Peafowl, Kabini ‘The Indian Peafowl, or Blue Peafowl, is a large and brightly coloured bird of the pheasant family…’ Now, if that...

Indian Golden Oriole, Coorg Imagine you’re out on a leisurely walk in Coorg and suddenly you hear the melodious strain of a flute wafting...

Baya Weaver, Coorg This is a tale about visual design in the natural world, and masterpieces created using proprietary Adobe technology....

Red Avadavat, Coorg Our songs have always immortalised the ‘Lady in Red’, but in the animal kingdom, it’s the Lad in Red who never goes...

Malabar Trogon, Coorg When you see someone dressed in a flamboyant waistcoat of crimson-pink, wearing brilliant blue eyeliner to match...

Sri Lankan Frogmouth, Coorg In a land where a lot of the natives trace their ancestry to the Macedonian armies of Alexander the Great,...

Coppersmith Barbet, Coorg Psychedelic yellowish-green outfits. Black bordered yellow face paint with black stripes. A crimson sash on the...

Egyptian Vulture, Kabini Millennia before the advent of the Chicken 65, a dish worshipped in India and almost conferred the status of...

Pheasant-tailed Jacana, Coorg For some it has always been a miracle; an act of faith. For others, it has merely been an act of science,...

Indian Eagle Owl, Kabini We have all grown up on a diet of stories about the animal kingdom, where each denizen is anointed with a...

Greater Coucal, Coorg We’ve all known those perennially unsatisfied people who complain about everything, reminding us of the saying,...

Bronze-winged Jacana, Coorg If some of our male readers had the chance to become someone else and live that person’s life, we wouldn’t be...

River Tern, Kabini At the outset, we’d like to apologise for not having the will power to resist using this particular caption for this...

Common Cuckoo, Kabini If you’re a Dunnock, Pipit or a Eurasian Reed Warbler, you could be excused for walking around with a slightly...

Pied Bush Chat, Coorg We’ve all heard of the legendary hospitality of Coorg, and how the denizens readily share their table and cellar...

Indian Spotted Eagle, Kabini How would you feel when you’ve spent a long time sussing out your prey, before successfully hunting it down,...

Spotted Owlet, Kabini Since antiquity, owls and owlets have fascinated mankind, and different societies have invested in them an almost...

Common Tailorbird, Coorg Tailors stitch clothes. Or that’s what we’ve always believed. In Coorg, however, they sew, rivet and stitch...

Little Cormorant, Kabini We all know how it is with fishermen and tall tales,and how the fish they caught last summer gets bigger and...