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Asian Water Monitor

The Asian water monitor is a large varanid lizard native to South & Southeast Asia. The bodies of Asian water monitor are muscular with long powerful, laterally compressed tails. This species is also denoted by the blackish band with yellow edges extending back. from each eye. These type of lizard are mostly distributed from india, Bangladesh, Srilanka, myanmar and Thailand, Cambodia, malaysiya & singapore. They are excellent swimmers. Using the raised fin on their tails to steer through water. Asian water monitors are carnivores & consume a wide range of prey. They mostly eat fish, frog, rodents, birds, crabs and snakes. They have keen sense of small and can small a carcass from far away. The asian water monitor is one of the most exploited varanids. Its skin is used for fashion accessories. Such as shoes, belts and hand bags, and it play a very important role in their ecosystem as they are one of the only large land carnivores. Photo Credits: Sirojan Written By: T.K...

Indian Cormorant

"Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing." - John Arbuthnot The Indian cormorant species is distributed in India, Pakistan, Srilanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia. It's scientific name is Phalacrocorax fuscicollis. These type of birds are mostly in medium size, measuring 60cm in length and weighing 600g to 700g. These birds have a long tail and long thin bill ending in hooked tip. A characteristic of the birds is the blue colour of the eyes. It is bronze brown coloured and the uppon plumage is scalloped in black. Breeding bird have a short white ear tuft. These bird nest on half submerged trees and trees in island. the nest is built with twigs. The usual clutel is three to five eggs. These cormorant is a resident bird and moves locally in search of feed and water bodies. Indian Cormorant birds feed mainly on fish and catch the pray by driving in the water. They are seen moving in a formation to corner fish. Habitat degra...

Great Egret

" I woke up wanting to read a poem by that name, and I found one with a lifeguard's chair, a broken shell, gulls watching egrets , home an ocean away ." - Author: Michael Broder Great egrets were hunted nearly to extinction for than plums in the late nineteenth century. These type of birds are dazzling sight in many a North American wetland. lanky, large long necked with heron, size and black legs help separate from other egrets. Great egret live in fresh water, brackish and marine wetlands. During the breeding season they live in colonies in tree or shrubs with other waterbirds. they are eat mainly small fish but also eats amphibians, reptiles, birds, small mammals and invertebrates. Males choose the display areas, where nest are later constructed. The nest itself is up to 100 feet off the land. The male builds a nest platform from long sticks and twigs before pairing up with a female and the both pairing up with a female and then both members...

The Upturned reality of Srilankans

"There is no more dangerous menace to civilization than a government of incompetent, corrupt or vile men" -Ludwig Von Mises- The current times in Srilanka are reminiscent of the early 1970s, when the country was fighting for its survival amid crippling food Shortage. The island nation is grappling with what is said to be its worst economic crisis since independence from Britain in 1948. It is caused to pay for fuel imports with power cuts lasting half a day or more and shortages of food, medicine and fuel. public anger has reached a new high. Reference Prices of basic needs are skyrocking, suffocating people to breathe. Furious Citizens of the nation have taken the Streets protesting against the failed government to resolve the prevailing economic crisis. It's the people who are bearing the burnt of the crisis as the domestic situation turns increasingly grim. Across the island bubbling with anger and desperation, the chants and the placards are being held by the people...

White-throated kingfisher

“Heavenly bodies are nests of invisible birds.” ― Dejan Stojanovic The White-throated kingfisher also known as the white- breasted kingfisher or Smyrna kingfisher is a tree kingfisher widely distributed in Asia from the Sinai east through the Indian subcontinent to China and Indonesia. This kingfisher is a resident over much of its range, although some populations may make short distance movements. It can be found well away from water where it feeds on a wide range of prey that includes small reptiles, crabs, small rodents and even birds. During the breeding season they call loudly in the mornings from prominent perches including the tops of buildings in the urban areas or on wires. White- throated kingfishers average life span is five years and six months. White-throated kingfishers have thick, reddish-orange bills, red legs and dark chocolate-coloured heads, bellies and shoulders. A brilliant white patch can be found on the throat and sometimes the breast. The wi...

Cattle egret bubulcus ibis

“This is wonderful, wonderful! Be the bird. You are the bird. Sacrifice yourself to abandoned family values....” ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak The Cattle egret cosmopolitan species of heron and this type of birds are mostly lived in warm temperate zone like Asia, Africa and Europe countries. The Cattle egret is a small white heron about 19-21 inches in length with a wingspan of about three feet it has short legs and thick neck compared to other species of egrets adult have dull yellow and orange bills and legs. During breeding season it has a brownish crown and chest and its eyes, legs and bill are red. Cattle egret are very social and they gather in large colonies of Cattle egrets and other bird species. This type of species eats insects that are stirred up by wild animals like grasshoppers, crickets, spiders and flies. Photo Credits: Sirojan Written By: T.Kobiga