Deepak Rajanna

This is the time of the year when the Custard apple shrubs in our farm start to fruit and a host of birds raid the ripe ones all day. Even birds that ...

An East Asian proverb "The journey is the reward" is nowhere truer than when you're birding in Bhutan. The forests surrounding the mountain roads are ...

Our Christmas roadtrip took us to the coasts of Udupi and then to the rainforests of Agumbe. I didn't get too many opportunities to bring out my birdi...

A winter is never complete without a trip to Gurgaon's best kept secret - Sultanpur. As always the haul was rich, and the highlight was spotting a Jac...

Hesarghatta Lake is the name given to the reservoir created by a dam built by the rulers of Mysore kingdom in 1894. For most of the recent years, thou...

Home to nearly 900 bird species, Arunachal Pradesh (and this part of the Himalayas, in general) have such a dizzying array of birds that they are only...

Kabini is normally associated with sightings of tigers and leopards, and it's easy to get obsessed with spotting them on safaris. This time, having sp...

Long before Gurgaon became the crowded urban jungle it is today its wetlands were a hub to migratory birds for ages. Sultanpur, just a 30km ride from ...

A 1600km isolation from the mainland ensures that the Andaman Islands have fauna that are significantly different from what we see around home. Even f...