Category "Eco Talk"

The Crimson Sunbird is also a small Sunbird, about 11 cm. long. They are generally found throughout India but are a rare sight in urban areas, preferring forests and farms with tree cover. […]

The Purple Sunbird is a small Sunbird less than 10 cm long, found throughout India in both urban and rural areas. They can be seen early in the morning hovering around flowers and perched besides them on branches of flowering plants and trees. […]

The spectacled caiman gets its name from the bony ridges between its eyes that look like glasses if you look at them from the front at eye level. […]

The Indian Robin is widespread across the subcontinent, with its Southern species more black than its ‘browner’ Northern species. They are commonly found in open scrub areas and often seen running along the ground or perching on low thorny shrubs and rocks. The long tail is usually held up and the chestnut undertail coverts and dark body make them easily distinguishable. […]

This is a very small South American crocodile and usually grow less than 3m long. Found in Belize, Mexico and Guatemala, these crocodiles have a broader snout when compared to the rest of the crocodiles. They live in freshwaters like swamps, marshes and ponds. Marsh crocodiles are usually very shy, although there have been instances when they have attacked humans. Females lay between 20 – 45 eggs between the months of April and June. […]

The Baya Weaver is widespread in the Indian Subcontinent and South East Asia. Large flocks are found in grasslands, farmlands, scrub and secondary growth. Though widespread, they are not generally migratory and move about locally depending upon food and habitat factors. […]

If you are a forest lover, you would love watching Malabar Giant Squirrel closely. These canopy-dwellers rarely make it to the forest floor. […]

The Brown Headed Gull is found all along coastal India during winters in large colonies. They breed in the highlands of Central Asia from Tajikistan to Mongolia in reeds, marshes, islands and lakes from May to July; and migrate to the subcontinent in winter. […]

The Lesser Crested tern is found all along the coastal regions of India,and are widely distributed from the Mediterranean to Australia and parts of the Pacific. They winter to the south of the equator, and are often migratory, coming into the sub continent from Central Asia and the North. They have a distinct black crest, grey rump and yellow – orange bill and are thus identified from their fellow Tern family. […]

India does not have a rabbit species; what maybe called rabbits (if spotted in the wild) could be hares. Hares do not build nests on the ground. […]

The Mexican giant musk turtle is also found in Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. They are the largest of the musk turtles found in the world. They get their name from the musky smell it releases from the back of its shell. […]

The Red Panda is considered as a vulnerable species by the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature). […]

The smallest of the ‘big four’ venomous snakes in India, it very rarely grows over 2 feet in length. Being nocturnal in nature they are active from late evening into the late hours of the night looking for food and moving around. […]

The Nile crocodile is one of the largest crocodilians in the world. Living in the Nile basin, sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar in freshwater marshes, mangrove swamps and rivers, they are found quite close to human settlements which leads to a lot of attacks. Since they do not really have a particular diet, someone nearby might look like a tasty meal. […]

Sambar is India’s largest deer. They have a long tail and a dark coat compared to other members of the same species. […]