Posted by
Susan Sharma
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December 11, 2018
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Posted by
Susan Sharma
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December 08, 2018
Wildbytes TV channel is now seen by nearly 70% of our members on their smart phones. Having crossed 1000 subscriptions to the channel, I have now produced a trailer video which recounts
the idea behind creating this channel. While the content in our online club is consumed by all age groups, the digital generation of 18 to 34 eagerly consume online videos.
Here is a link to the Trailer video. And yes, please do subscribe and click on the bell next to the subscribe button so that you are informed when we upload a new video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MxkyLgtlNw
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Posted by
Susan Sharma
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December 01, 2018
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Posted by
Susan Sharma
on
May 16, 2018
Our latest additions to IndianWildlifeClub You Tube channel can be viewed at
Please subscribe and write in your comments on the videos on the youtube page.
We are also in the process of making our own TV channel http://wildbytes.tv
mobile friendly! Over 140 videos have already been uploaded in our channel, each video covers some aspect of nature/wildlife. The videos include our documentaries on Corbett National park, Ranthambhore National Park, Chitwan National Park and Bukansan
National Park.
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Posted by
Susan Sharma
on
January 25, 2018
I have uploaded over 100 videos relating to nature and wildlife in wildbytes Youtube channel. These videos are drawn from my experiences in various National Parks in India nad abroad plus videos of experts talking on related subjects wherever I could manage
hearing and recording them.
The channel is aimed at all nature lovers who care about the environment we live in.
It will be good if you can watch and write in your comments about the content of the videos. Many of you will have comments to add which will enrich the content in each video.
Please subscribe to the channel to be able to comment
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCng_XfXfguqI-mX1x1xXdWA
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Posted by
Susan Sharma
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June 29, 2017
Nature lovers feel connected wherever they go! I experienced this lately when I visited my cousin who lives in far away San Diego. The cabbage butterfly I saw in the botanical garden of San Diego reminded me of Dr.Surya Prakash from whom I had learnt that
the Indian cabbage butterfly migrates by flying 300 to 400 miles a year. It is one of the three in India which migrate long distances. Want to learn more fascinating facts about butterflies from Dr. Surya Prakash? See the short film in our you tube channel
https://youtu.be/KLz3rsawl88
The sparrow happlily mud bathing on the ground of an open restaurant reminded me of the sparrows mud bathing back home. It also made me appreciate the fact that the restaurant owners who had grown local flowers all around, had made the ground inviting for
birds with leaf moulds and mulches.
On a cruise in the Soth Pacific Bay, the tour guide kept calling attention to the naval might of the USA and the ships and drones which had occupied the shores of the Bay. On one side a large group of Cormorants were busy fishing, reminding us how nature,
especially birds, can adapt anywhere. The sea lions displaced were huddled up on bait barges (because of which the cruise was called "Sea lion Cruise"). Having seen the interaction between a mum and pup sealions on the Pacific coast near the Torrey Pines
Reserve, the bait barges seemed like a zoo. Again, the foresightedness to put these barges for sea lions lazy enough not to go to other available shores? was worth appreciating.
Want to feel some of these emotions I went through? Watch the short film at
https://youtu.be/HYJ5kY1CSeQ
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Posted by
Susan Sharma
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June 25, 2017
Nature lovers feel connected wherever they go! I experienced this lately when I visited my cousin who lives in far away San Diego. The cabbage butterfly I saw in the botanical garden of San Diego reminded me of Dr.Surya Prakash
from whom I had learnt that the Indian cabbage butterfly migrates by flying 300 to 400 miles a year. It is one of the three in India which migrate long distances. Want to learn more fascinating facts about butterflies from Dr. Surya Prakash? See the short
film in our you tube channel
The sparrow happlily mud bathing on the ground of an open restaurant reminded me of the sparrows mud bathing back home. It also made me appreciate the fact that the restaurant owners who had grown local flowers all around,
had made the ground inviting for birds with leaf moulds and mulches.
On a cruise in the Soth Pacific Bay, the tour guide kept calling attention to the naval might of the USA and the ships and drones which had occupied the shores of the Bay. On one side a large group of Cormorants were busy
fishing, reminding us how nature, especially birds, can adapt anywhere. The sea lions displaced were huddled up on bait barges (because of which the cruise was called "Sea lion Cruise"). Having seen the interaction between a mum and pup sealions on the Pacific
coast near the Torrey Pines Reserve, the bait barges seemed like a zoo. Again, the foresightedness to put these barges for sea lions lazy enough not to go to other available shores? was worth appreciating.
Want to feel some of these emotions I went through? Watch the short film at
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Posted by
Susan Sharma
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May 20, 2017
Endangered Species Day - 19th May 2017
In a world with natural habitats shrinking the wildlife that we share this wonderful planet with continue to become endangered.
In India, many beautiful pheasants are endangered. When the winged guardians of our mountainscapes disappear, the mountains will be poorer.
Watch this short video on mountain pheasants
https://youtu.be/Np5kMkXdvKI
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Posted by
Bhavesh
on
June 21, 2011
How many times have we felt 'virtual proximity' to nature,just by watching a movie or a program on Discovery/Net Geo (for India,usually the credit goes to Tigers).Our problem is (Media included) we do not think of other animals,forget birds.For us,Tigers
rule the rule books.
Fortunately,I got a copy of 'Sarang-The Peacock',last week.It's a wonderful account of Peacocks and their life made by Susan Sharma.Watching it is like a musical journey,too calm and soothing (thanks to the excellent music score).
Peacocks have always fascinated us,rains can't be imagined without a dancing peacock,making that 'eye catching' pattern.The whole 'web of life' including humans,snakes,squirrels and peachicks (new born peacock) is encircled in this beautiful narration.
Must watch for every Indian, at least we must know about our 'national bird'.Thanks Susan for this beautiful account.I am on my way to search out for peacocks in fields nearby.
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Posted by
Rakesh
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June 03, 2010
Indian Peacock (called Mayura in Sanskrit) has enjoyed a fabled place in India since ancient times. In imagery Lord Krishna is always represented wearing a peacock feather tucked in his headband.
Ancient kings in India were said to have gardens to raise peafowl where guests were invited to see the peacock dance during the mating season. Due to this close relationship with humans for thousands of years, they have entered ancient Indian stories, songs
and poems as symbols of beauty and poise. As the mating season coincides with the onset of monsoon rains and the month of Shravan in the Hindu calendar, many songs of rains have peacock-dance mentioned in them. One possible origins of the name of the famous
Maurya dynasty of ancient India is probably derived from the word Mayura as the ancestors of the Mauryas are thought to be peafowl-keepers of a royal court in eastern India.
Hindu mythology describes the peafowl as the vehicle or vaahan for Karthikeya, also called Murugan, the brother of Ganesha, the goddess Saraswati, and the goddess Mahamayuri.
watch the video of courtship displaying dance of Indian peafowl at my you tube link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-wqHP-CrWU
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Indian Peafowl displaying his train during the peafowl breeding season. Indeed, its sole purpose is to attract a mate. Seeing a peahen approaching, the peacock lifts his train—a cluster of long tail coverts that spread out to form a fan several feet high and
extending down to the ground on both sides. The train feathers are iridescent blue and green, with an eye-like spot of brilliant blue, green, and orange, at the end. Each feather is a work of art in itself—together they make a spectacular backdrop for the
sapphire blue peacock and his carefully orchestrated courtship dance: 1. During the breeding season, peacocks choose special places to perform their courtship dance and they tend to return to the same location year after year.
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