Photo Diary

Habits affects open, sandy or stony semi-desert with scanty grass ground cover. You can see crested lark runs about in search of food grass seeds, small beetles and other insects.

A Crested lark sandy-brown overall, but paler below, with prominent sharp crest raising upward and backward from the head. The bird is streaked with black above and brown below.

The Great Roundleaf Bat is amongst the largest of the Hipposideros genus, and is the largest example in Southeast Asia. Typically the species roosts in caves, but is also found in abandoned buildings.

The male (peacock) Indian Peafowl has iridescent blue-green or green colored plumage. The "eyes" are best seen when the peacock fans its tail. Like a cupped hand behind the ear, the erect tail-fan of the male helps direct sound to the ears. Peafowl are forest birds that nest on the ground but roost in trees. They are terrestrial feeders. Both species of peafowl are believed to be polygamous. However, it has been suggested that peahens entering a green peacock's territory are really his own juvenile or sub-adult young and that green peafowl are really monogamous in the wild.