Photo of the Month (August)

Image Description :

The Hunt!
The River Tern Sterna aurantia (J.E. Gray, 1831), on its morning fish hunt. Image from Western Ghats of Kerala.

Photographer :

Dr. Kalesh Sadasivan, MS, MCh (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery) He is also an Assistant Professor, Medical College, Trichur, Kerala , Research Associate, Travancore Nature History Society (TNHS), Kerala , Member, IUCN SSC Dragonfly Specialist Group (2021–2025) and Member State Board for Wildlife, Kerala.

He is a plastic surgeon by profession and a naturalist by passion, from Kerala. Founder member and
research associate of Travancore Nature History Society (TNHS), an NGO based in Trivandrum
since 2010.

A wildlife photographer and an amateur taxonomist with specific interest in invertebrates. Discovered and described more 26 new species to science from the Western Ghats including frogs, reptiles, wasps, ants & odonates. 42 peer reviewed publications in Medicine and Natural History.