The Observation of Greater Cormorant Breeding Behaviour in Kaikondrahalli lake , Bangalore.
This is a fictionalized account of breeding behavior observation of Greater cormorants in Bangalore. Finding a house and making it your home in Bangalore is a task indeed. Many of us , recently married, some of us sometime back , emerging from the purple haze of a honeymoon start on the arduous task of shifting from a 1 bhk/ PG accommodation to our very own[ rented] घरौंदा. The task is abundantly described in many Bollywood songs. I saw an avian version of it recently. As the male preened and pecked at his beautiful streaks of white breeding plumage, she sat distant on a cold, bare branch on a wheezy grey morning which was the 21st . He went forth and located a Dense scrub dried to the core and heaved and heaved . Some things are just so hard to do [ especially without hands or opposable thumbs] Finally , a consolation of a twig broke free just enough to suffice her desires. Freeing himself from the mess of the dry branches, and hurrying up to the mate in waiting, the courtship begins