Peacock

Heartbroken if left alone…

Peacocks are large, colorful pheasants (typically blue and green) known for their iridescent tails. Though peahens have relatively unremarkable plumage and coloration, they are thought to choose their suitors based on the grandeur of their feathers. Indian peahens are largely brown, which allows them to blend into surrounding vegetation and avoid detection by predators.

Peacocks are polygamous (mate with more than one female) and usually form a harem that consists of 2-5 females. Left alone peacocks are very sad and heart-broken.

Cost: Rs. 225/-(excluding packaging and courier charges)

Tiger

Tigers can purr

The tiger is one of the largest and most awesome predators in the world. This species undoubtedly fascinates every eye it meets.

The body length of the majestic male ranges from 275-290 cm and of the female around 260 cm. The size and colour vary according to the geographic location and climate. Tiger stripes are individually as unique as human fingerprints. Like domestic cats, all tigers can purr.

Cost: Rs.350/- (excluding packing and courier charges)

Deer

Sheds horns!!

Deer stay in herds of about 25 deer per herd, mainly female deer and a dominant male deer known as a stag. The stag is very protective and will often fight other stags to protect its herd.

Cost: Rs. 275/-(excluding packaging and courier charges)

Camel

Spitting Beauty

The name “camel” comes from the Arabic “jml” meaning “beauty”. In contrast to popular belief, a camel’s hump does not store water. It instead stores fat, lessening heat-trapping insulation around the rest of the body. One of the camel’s defenses is ‘spitting’ – where they essentially throw up a foul-smelling greenish fluid from their stomach all over you if provoked. For those who have experienced it, it seems never-ending and is never forgotten.

Cost: Rs.  275/-  (excluding packaging and courier charges)

Pangolin- Sticker

We begin our first dedicated campaign to highlight and improve the Pangolin’s plight.

Cost: Rs.50 (excluding packaging and courier charges)

Pangolin (T-Shirt)

Crazy looking creatures…

Pangolins’ scales are made of keratin, the same protein that makes up our own hair and nails. When pangolins feel threatened, they curl up into a tight, almost impenetrable ball to protect their tender undersides. If caught, they will thrash about using their tail muscles. Because their scales have very sharp edges, they can slice the skin of a human or predator when they do this. They may also release the stinky fluid from their glands as a defense mechanism.

Cost: Rs.450 (excluding packing and delivery charges)

Wild Honey (Dark)

Far within the Western Ghats in India, tribal communities search for small hives built by the Asiatic Bee (Apis cerena). Residing within crevices and tree cavities, they are harvested through techniques developed over generations to collect this pure source of sweetness: HONEY. This organic honey is much darker in color, stronger in taste and associated with more medicinal values than that by the Giant Rock Bee, which builds large combs.

Cost: Rs. 160 (excluding packing and courier charges)

Content: 240 gm of pure Honey in a glass bottle.

Common Myna

Grasshopper Hunters

The Common Myna is brown with a black head. It has a yellow bill, legs and bare eye skin. These garrulous birds have wonderful, gregarious personalities and are much loved for their inimitable mimicry of human sounds. They are closely associated with human habitation.

Cost: Rs. 100 (excludes packing & courier charges)

Nuthatch

Nifty and Nimble

Nuthatches are easy birds to identify. If you see a bird creeping downward on a tree, it’s a Nuthatch. It is the only species that can “walk down a tree”. They are dumpy looking, robin-sized birds. Nuthatch plumage is steel-blue / grey above, white about the throat, rusty/buff on chest and belly, and with a bold, dark eye-stripe.

Cost: Rs. 100 (excludes packing & courier charges)

Indian Golden Orioles

Bright yellow but shy…

Indian Golden Oriole is a species of Oriole found in the Indian Subcontinent and Central Asia. The male Golden Oriole is an incredibly coloured bird, with striking yellow and jet black plumage.  They have a very distinct flute-like call, which can sometimes sound like their name “or-ee-ole”.

Cost: Rs.100 (excludes packing & courier charges)

Flameback Woodpecker

Like Clockwork

The Black-rumped Flameback is one of the common woodpeckers in India. The male Lesser Goldenback has a red crown and crest. Females have a dull black fore crown spotted with white, with red only on the rear crest.

Cost: Rs.100 (excludes delivery & courier charges)

Rock Pigeons

The Messengers

A wild rock pigeon is pale grey in color and has two black bars on each wing. The chest is glossy yellowish, with greenish and reddish-purple iridescence along its neck and wing feathers. Rock pigeon is the wild ancestor of domestic pigeons the world over. Usually the male doves select the nest place and then ‘coo’ to attract a mate.

Cost: Rs.100 (excludes packing & courier charges)

Indian Parakeets

Loving and affectionate

The common Indian Parakeet, in its natural setting, is apple green with the face, abdomen and under the wings a more yellowish-green. The hooked beak is red in colour with a black tip to the upper beak. In captivity, various mutations have been bred including blue, violet (very rare), white and yellow.

Cost: Rs.100 (excludes packing & courier charges)

Out of the nest

Showcasing our first line of products: Birds of the Indian Subcontinent. Handcrafted and painted by local communities in the Eastern Ghats. Each pair comes specially packed in a Palmyra leaf box in our attempt to avoid plastic.