2026 Edition

Keoladeo national park in Bharatpur, Rajasthan, is a bird sanctuary that shelter many migratory birds in winter and some native birds for the breeding period. January is a very cold month, often accompanied by mist and fog. For the thirty years I have been going to this reserve, I have often observed this behavior of birds attacking snakes and monitor lizards, which feed on their eggs. But this time, I was lucky enough to witness the scene: while I had been observing the same dry tree for four days, one morning, a pair of parakeets accompanied by about ten other parakeets and attacked the monitor lizard. The attack lasted about an hour.

600 mm f/4 Lens - 1/1250 sec at f/8 ISO 1600