Travellers on the Tricity’s countryside roads, too, will have observed snakes run over by vehicles in October. The reason being, reptiles slither out at night to deserted roads to seek warmth from the still-warm tarmac. read more

Rewinding to the pioneering path he took from the CGC of the 1970s to donning the mantle of India’s most successful golfer (13 international titles), Jeev’s generation was classic outdoors. read more

How would the chick of a very rare species of the region, the Mottled wood owl, rescued from the Chandigarh Golf Club by international golfer, Sujjan Singh, recently lead us to the heart of these connections? read more

The Black bittern and Sirkeer malkoha are two birds that range across the Sukhna lake jungles but are difficult to discern. read more

Fact is the ‘Baaz of belief’ was actually a juvenile Shikra and not to be mistaken for the Northern goshawk, the magnificent raptor historically associated with three Sikh gurus. read more

Toor’s photograph revealed it was a Common Palm civet, locally known as ‘Bijjoo’ or even ‘Kabr bijjoo’ on the misconception that it digs graves at night to munch on corpses! But the civet does not attack and bite humans in the habit of dogs. read more

Black swans tilt towards monogamy but one-quarter of all pairings are homosexual, the two loving males sometimes adopt a female, mate with her and then drive her off to incubate eggs. read more

As luck would have it, just before Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Wuhan for the grand summit, an Indian birder was exploring the avian wonders of that Central China city poised at the confluence of the Yangtze and Hanshui rivers. read more

Let us meet a pigeon fancier of a decidedly different persuasion, a hobbyist who loves falcons and pigeons with equal fervour read more

Veteran hunter of man-eating leopards and tigers, Parwanoo-based Ashish Dasgupta, can tell from the blood trail of a wounded big cat where the bullet has struck home. read more