Winner | Animal Behaviour


Ratheesh Rajan

Winner | Animal Behaviour

Cherthala, Kerala

Out For A Duck

Monitor Lizards will eat almost anything. Fish, insects, birds, crabs, snakes—you name it! They even scale trees to raid nests or capture squirrels. But it's not every day that you find a giant lizard holding a Lesser-whistling Duck by its neck. Lesser-whistling Ducks are known to build nests in tree cavities and on the branches of large trees. Sometimes, even high up on a tree is just not high enough!


Ratheesh Rajan

Ratheesh Rajan is a civil police officer from Cherthala, Alappuzha, Kerala. He has been nurturing his passion for wildlife photography for the last three years, and is utterly fascinated by birds. Ratheesh's work has been featured online in international publications like the BBC, National Geographic and Discovery, and he has several awards to his name.