YOUR DAILY PULSE OF ERNAKULAM AND BEYOND- SUPPORTED BY UPGRADERZ
The Indian grey mongoose or Asian grey mongoose (Urva edwardsii) was first recorded in 1818 by the French naturalist Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772 –1844). This is a mongoose that I…
The Indian pitta (Pitta brachyura) is a small bird that lives in northern India and migrates to southern India in winter. Brachyura means short tail in Greek. The English name…
Utetheisa pulchella, the crimson-speckled flunkey, crimson-speckled footman, or crimson-speckled moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was first recorded by the Swedish physician and zoologist Carl Linnaeus (1707…
Halo (from the Greek ἅλως, halos) is a term used to describe optical phenomena caused by light interacting with ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere. This halo, which I photographed…
The lesser whistling duck (Dendrocygna javanica), also known as the Indian whistling duck, and lesser whistling teal, gets its name from the whistling sound made by the large feathers on…
The sandalwood defoliator (Amata passalis) is a moth of the genus Amata in the subfamily Arctiinae (“woolly bears” or “tiger moths”) of the family Erebidae. Its name comes from the…