Bird of the Day – Changeable Hawk-Eagle (Tadoba Tiger Reserve, Maharashtra)
Conservation Tourism
Bird of the Day: Pied Kingfisher
Mole National Park, Ghana
Bird of the Day – Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher (Nandi Hills, near Bangalore, Karnataka)
Bird of the Day: Tit-Hylia (Mole National Park, Ghana)
Periyar Sightings, Gavi
Gavi, part of the Periyar Tiger Reserve under the management of the Kerala Forest Development Corporation, is one of the off-the-beaten-track destinations ideal for a wilderness retreat replete with trekking, birding, canoeing and facilities for lodging. There are hills and valleys, tropical forests, sprawling grasslands, sholas (evergreen tropical forests), cascading waterfalls and cardamom plantations. Elephants, Nilgiri Thar, and the endangered Lion-tailed macaque are all often sighted at the outskirts of Gavi. Yesterday Mr. Sunu from Kottayam visited Gavi and shared some of his photos. Continue reading
Bird of the Day: Baudó Guan (Los Cedros Reserve, Ecuador)
Bamboo Rafting – Periyar Tiger Reserve
Bamboo Rafting
Community based ecotourism is the hallmark of the Periyar Tiger Reserve. These programmes are conducted by the local people responsible for the surveillance of the vulnerable parts of the reserve. Bamboo Rafting is a dawn to dusk range hiking and rafting programme through some of the richest forest tracts of the reserve. Continue reading
Bird of the Day: Hispaniolan Woodpecker
Parque Valle Nuevo, Dominican Republic
Bird of the Day: Vermillion Flycatcher
El Cuyo, Mexico
Another India : impressions of Tamil Nadu
Thekkady sits right next to the frontier between Kerala and Tamil Nadu. But once you cross the Western Ghats it’s like setting foot in a whole other country. The alphabet is different, the language is not malayalam but tamil. And the temperature is much hotter than in the hill stations, thus flora and fauna are radically different too. I mean it’s quite a shock, I’ve never felt this otherness when crossing a border in Europe. Tamil Nadu counts 72 million souls and tamil has been used for 3800 years so naturally the country has a distinct identity. Continue reading
Bird of the Day: Chocó Toucans
Los Cedros Reserve, Ecuador
Bird of the Day: Naked-faced Barbet (Mole National Park, Ghana)
Bird of the Day: Common Flameback Woodpecker
Outskirts of Bangalore, Karnataka
Bird of the Day: Lincoln’s Sparrow (Mendenhall Wetlands, Alaska)
A stroll around Kumily
Cow playing football
Cardamom County is located at the junction of Kumily and Thekkady and for me it is not quite clear yet where one starts and the other stops. Walking around Kumily in the early morning is a privileged moment to witness daily wonders. Continue reading
Bird of the Day: Summer Tananger
Reserva Los Cedros, Ecuador
Bird of the Day: Helmeted Guineafowl
Mole National Park, Ghana
Green man-made landscapes
Sometimes you look at workers through a tourism car window and you think: they may be doing the same gestures that their ancestors were doing centuries ago.
Bird of the Day: American Kestrel
Parque Valle Nuevo, Dominican Republic
Bird of the Day: Mexican Sheartail Hummingbird
Female – Celestún, Mexico
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