Santosh Rajus
If you love woodpeckers and would like to see how they are distributed across India, here is a preview of few species of woodpeckers distribution based on the data provided by e-bird. The data used here is only for visualization purposes and for any further details regarding the data, please reach out to e-bird. You…
Woodpeckers have been one of my favorite birds from childhood since it was very rare to spot one and it was one of the first birds which I saw making holes on huge and strong trees in search of food. 25 years later, I got to observe so many different species of woodpeckers and learned…
The word Rain always brings joy and puts a smile on everyone’s face. For animals, it starts with the soil-dwelling bacteria that releases a sweet-smelling chemical that we relate to the smell of rain. The frogs and fishes wait in anticipation for the rains to begin their journey and move to richer grounds for mating…
Coffee agroforests are home to diverse animals and working along with them is a mystery. You see their trails, marking and scat but not the animals as such. Following animal tracks is always fun as it always tells a story. Once while following an elephant trail, I could see how the baby elephant had playfully…
Life is not easy, we work our way up every day to eat and put a shelter over our head. Can you imagine how hard it would be in a jungle? The Indian cobra after a long search in the grassland has found the scent of the jungle-fowl eggs and has gulped it all. The poor…
Life in a coffee plantation keeps surprising me. Even though the coffee plantation has been modified extensively, it is always a joy to see wild animals still moving around. Walking around the fields for a few days I observed a peculiar marking on the ground with the surface disturbed and a half destroyed Robusta plant…
A morning walk in the coffee plantation always brings me great joy when I see the way the gentle giants have walked through and left their markings; especially tracking the young one’s path in the fresh grass. The path of adults would be in a single line and then next to it a playful and…
Eight years back, I planted a few trees in my home compound with the hope that I could make a small difference in my hometown. These trees included a fig and a guava tree. What a joy it is to see these trees filled with life, both during the day and night. What captured my…
“The elephants have come” “Two calves are here” “One tusker”! These were the words spreading everywhere in the Coffee Plantation for the past two months but not one person got to see these magnificent and much elusive elephants. This led me to the quest of understanding the herd in this plantation and their movement patterns…
Kallu Kuttai Lake is next to Tharamani and the during monsoon season, Its water spreads a long distance, connecting with the Pallikaranai marshland. But due to development in Velachery, and the laying of railway track, the lake size is reduced to 1.5km and its ecosystem is constantly facing threats. The highlight of this lake is…
