Tiger sniffing trees during its routine territory marking.

The Indian cormorant or Indian shag is a member of the cormorant family. It is found mainly along the inland waters of the Indian Subcontinent but extending west to Sind and east to Thailand and Cambodia. It is a gregarious species that can be easily distinguished from the similar sized little cormorant by its blue eye, small head with a sloping forehead and a long narrow bill ending in a hooked tip. This medium-sized bronze brown cormorant is scalloped in black on the upper plumage, lacks a crest and has a small and slightly peaked head with a long narrow bill that ends in a hooked tip. The eye is blue and bare yellow facial skin during the non-breeding season. Breeding birds have a short white ear tuft. In some plumages it has a white throat but the white is restricted below the gape unlike in the much larger great cormorant. Sexes are similar, but non-breeding adults and juveniles are browner.

Portrait of Black Kite

After half an hour of walking into the jungle, this majestic view changed everything.

Sonamarg, Kashmir

As the sun shines bright on the hills, the tea estates of the Nilgiris shines like a piece of green silk cloth.

Mallalli Falls

The European roller Coracias garrulus is the only member of the roller family of birds to breed in Europe. Its overall range extends into the Middle East, Central Asia and Morocco Gears use canon 700d

Rainbow scape over Hundar Sand Dunes with a herd of sheep grazing in the foreground