Nandi Hills, Karnataka
Bird of the Day: Puff-throated Babbler
Nandi Hills, Karnataka
Nature Photography
Bird of the Day: Roadside Hawk
Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
Bird of the Day: Spotted Owlet
Bangalore, Karnataka
Bird of the Day: Black-throated Blue Warbler
male – Corn Puss Gap, Blue and John Crow Mountains National Park, Jamaica
A Tiger’s Tail
If you want to get a different perspective and a unique image, you have to be very attentive and keep your camera / lens / eyes focused on your subject.
This is Sonam, one of the Tigresses of Tadoba who had made a kill near a waterbody and likes to come down to the water to cool herself.
Her typical behaviour was to sit in the water for long time and finally get back to her kill.
Bird of the Day: Great Barbet
Bhimtal Lake, Uttarakhand
Another Reason To Flock to Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary
It’s not surprising that for the 3rd year running India has been among the top 3 participating countries in the Audobon Society’s Great Backyard Bird Count. According to GBBC statistics, India nearly doubled the number of checklists submitted to more than 6,800 and reported the greatest number of species with 717.
Many of those lists have come from the south Indian states of Karnataka and Kerala, so we’re excited to help promote this additional forum for Celebrating Birds.
Karnataka’s first Bird Festival aims to put focus on birds and bird watching in Karnataka. To provide a platform for well-known naturalists, experts, forest officers, bird photographers to share their insights & thoughts. This festival also focusses on putting bird conservation on the center-stage and raise the attention of nature enthusiasts and general public towards the significance of birds and the important role they play in the ecosystem.
Bird of the Day: Brown-winged Kingfisher
Bhitarkanika National Park, Orissa
Bird of the Day: Piratic Flycatcher
Bird of the Day: Spot-bellied Eagle Owl
Bandipur Tiger Reserve, Karanataka
Bird of the Day: Purple-rumped Sunbird
Bangalore, Karnataka
Bird of the Day: Yellow Bishop (Masai Mara, Kenya)
Bird of the Day: Cinereous Tit (Mandal, Uttarakhand)
Bird of the Day: Silvery-cheeked Hornbill (Nech Sar National Park, Ethiopia)
photo credit: Andrew Murphy
Bird of the Day: Lesser Yellownape Woodpecker
Western Ghats, India
Bird of the Day: Great Cormorant
Kabini Backwaters, Karnataka
Bird of the Day: Pied Bushchat
female left; male right – Munnar, Kerala
Bird of the Day: Purple Gallinule
Carara National Park, Costa Rica
Memory Restoration
Normally we avoid posting on what can be viewed as corporate advertisement, but we have to applaud the use of technology to assist in the healing process after the devasting Tōhoku earthquake and subsequent tsumani in 2011. Thousands of lives were lost, and survivers suffered the additional trauma of losing their homes, including the photographic mementoes of their loved ones.
Ricoh used their expertise in office imaging equipment to coordinate an amazing effort of 518 employee volunteers to find, clean and digitize 418,721 photos, returning 90,128 pictures to the people who lost them.
Ricoh is now offering a glimpse of how this monumental effort was conducted for future reference. The company would be delighted “if this record is useful for improving awareness towards disaster prevention or reconstruction support activities after the event of a disaster,” it says. Continue reading
Bird of the Day: Steppe Eagles
Bikaner City, Rajasthan
