Landing on the banks of the Periyar in the morning is an experience all birders would enjoy. Little river terns flit across the Periyar’s surface in fantastic aerial sorties, while pied kingfishers ...

Hush, no noise, don’t disturb, don’t go closer,” Abhilash’s instructions kept coming as the dry twigs and leaves gave a loud cry under our feet. We lifted some branches to reach a small space from ...

Just an hour into the self-guided Salim Ali Nature Trail at the Thattekkad Bird Sanctuary, you feel the sunburn from the scorching heat. The foliage on the footpath is thick and green, the Periyar ...

The racket-tailed drongo is one of the first birds to wake everyone up. The whistling jingle of the drongo’s call is almost always the sound Sudha Chandran starts her day with. “By 5.30am, there is a ...

Water transport operations at the Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary in Thattekkad will resume by mid-January, after a gap of eight years. The boats were pulled out of service following the boat tragedy on ...

Adventure seekers in the city will find far more interesting activities in their neighbourhood once the adventure tourism circuit, proposed by the tourism department, materializes. KOCHI: Adventure ...

THATTEKKAD: With an eye to tap the tourism potential of the Salim Ali Bird Sanctuary also known as Thattekkad Bird Sanctuary, Forest department is planning to introduce new tourism programmes and ...

ALAPPUZHA: Bird monitoring cell at Thattekkad plans to involve more voluntary organisations to ring the migratory birds and track their trajectory. An official said ringing was inevitable in the ...

India's varying landforms and climates have made the country a hub of birds and fowl, which prefer chaos for providing habitation to so many bird types and being a great breeding ground. From serene ...