Celebrating International year of Biodiversity and the Independence day
15 Videoclips to celebrate August 15 th Watch my latest bio-videoclips The avian diversity in action! Birds of prey 1. The majestic flight of a Brahminy kite (Haliastur indus) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mbltBxoRDQ The ‘fisher’ …. Indian cormorant (Phallacocorax fuscicollis) loves our rainwater harvesting project 2. Fishing and swimming, diving action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNJe7CCcGSM 3. Drying itself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2lCwGna6Po 4. Flying away after disturbed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVByC5MqpYQ The insects in action 5. The greedy (and ever enterprising) Wild honeybees (Apis) on wild Jasmine (Pavetta indica) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coMaXHTPoXs 6. Butterflies on Lantana bushes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dldObGZ5WE 7. A blinking ‘Photinus’ firefly on vegetation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLaC9TdbPe4 8. The sporting spirit of aquatic spiders (Megadolomedes australianus) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3a6DZ9YjoPA 9. A praying mantis (Hierodula majiscula) camouflaged on leaves http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bUTdViQyQk Mushrooms Non Edible 10. Fairy rings of Agrocybe pediades on lawns http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5QrGyl8Y2I Edible 11. Termitomyces heimii-the wild mushroom species which Goans are destroying by overexploitation http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaLEmV-BNe0 (Details of resource depletion at http://www.scribd.com/doc/11518620/Ecoconservation-of-Goas-Termitomyces-biodiversityand Ethnomycological aspects at http://www.scribd.com/doc/7458618/EcotheologyofTermitehillan-Indian-ethnomycological-connection-by-Dr-Nandkumar-M-Kamat) Wildflower festival 12. Watch large carpets of Neanotis, Justicia, Smithia, Ericaulon, Drocera (insect trapper) , Eutricularia (insect trapper) , Rhamphicarpa (five O clock flower –a root parasite of grasses) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akJ8VPTGMT4 13. Rhampicarpa longiflora –white Tutari flowers, dominate the campus Five O’clock flowers in heavy bloom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXYsZN33Bpk 14. Climate change favours five O clock flowers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeRIVuiyWw8 15. Innocence of water-an ephemeral monsoon stream in our campus counting it’s last days http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJj1kFPzZ9M -- Dr. Nandkumar Kamat, GOA