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This Chennai visitor does not grant birders an easy audience Updated: Updated: Share Article A Terek Sandpiper. Photo: Sundaravel Palanivelu
The Terek Sandpiper’s forehead is a cliff dressed in feathers. The bird would still be headbutted out of a “Mr. Steep Forehead” contest. The Pied Avocet, also a Chennai migrant, is enough to dash its hopes. Placed next to the Avocet’s forehead, Mount Thor with its daunting cliff is just a hopelessly flat-lined ECG lead. The Terek Sandpiper’s more attention-grabbing feature is its upcurved bill. Here again, the Pied Avocet is comfortably placed above the competition. The Terek Sandpiper’s nickname Avocet Sandpiper in fact settles the matter, announcing who gets the better of the other in the two-feature contest. ....
Three mammals whose pugmarks are missing in their usual urban haunts Updated: Updated: March 06, 2021 23:29 IST Though living largely unseen, the Black-naped Hare, Golden Jackal and Indian Grey Mongoose would be found close to human habitations, often thriving in suitable habitats within the urban environment. Now, they are scarcely seen and heard in what used to be their regular haunts Share Article AAA A black-naped Hare that the Prestons rescued as a near-newborn nurtured and released in the wild after it had grown up. Photo: Preston Ahimaz | Photo Credit: Preston Ahimaz Though living largely unseen, the Black-naped Hare, Golden Jackal and Indian Grey Mongoose would be found close to human habitations, often thriving in suitable habitats within the urban environment. Now, they are scarcely seen and heard in what used to be their regular haunts ....
From trees to terra firma Updated: Updated: March 06, 2021 23:29 IST Here is how two arboreal mammals the Asian Palm Civet and Asiatic Long-Tailed Climbing Mouse respond when they have to share space with humans Share Article AAA Here is how two arboreal mammals the Asian Palm Civet and Asiatic Long-Tailed Climbing Mouse respond when they have to share space with humans Arboreal, the Asian Palm Civet and Asiatic Long-Tailed Climbing Mouse are inclined to viewing their worlds along vertical lines. However in urban spaces, they tend towards adaptations without compromising on their essential nature. Mahathi Narayanaswamy, a resident of IIT-Madras who records the fauna and avifauna on the campus, draws attention to how now and then, a Palm Civet ( ....
Flying oranges at the gardens of Theosophical Society Updated: Updated: January 17, 2021 11:20 IST Two sub-species of the Orange-headed Thrush keep their date with this lush-green and leafy woodland of a campus every winter Share Article An Orange-headed Thrush at Indiranagar in Adyar. Photo: Vikas Madhav Nagarajan
Two sub-species of the Orange-headed Thrush keep their date with this lush-green and leafy woodland of a campus every winter In her later years, celluloid diva Greta Garbo took great pains to keep her life under air-tight wraps, and curiosity about it kept mounting. In the avian world, there are birds that avoid getting noticed with an almost Garbo-esque resolve but find themselves swept into the spotlight. ....