Photographs of The Meghalayan Wildlife

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Ring necked parakeet (New Delhi)	Black kites (New Delhi)	Minor birds (New Delhi)	Turtle dove (Baghmara)
Painted storks (New Delhi Zoological Park)	Indian roller	Unidentified eagle (Norkrek National Park)	Gecko (New Delhi)
Tokay type gecko	Lizard in bamboo forest	Golden skink	Large eyed skink
Gecko: I found at least nine gecko species	Cave frog	Bullfrog	Burrowing frog
Banded krait	Burmese python	Unknown caterpillar	Caterpillar
Spiny caterpillar	Bug feeding on a dead jewel beetle	A tortoise beetle: Aspidomorpha sp	Rainbow leaf hopper
One of many similar blue butterflies	Butterfly on genet scat. Many butterflies take minerals and salts from animal droppings. Here a civet cat has left its territorial scat on a streamside boulder and the butterfly Stibochiona nicea is taking advantage.	Redlacewing Cephosia Biblis: butterfly	At certain points in the jungle where the hill streams create pools and shallow areas, many species on lepidoptera gather to drink such as these Green angles butterflies
Large groups of yellow butterflies drinking	Window moth
	A leaf beetle	Stick insect	Stick insect
Blue fly	The diversity of hymenoptera is just amazing. This wasp was one of dozens I came across	A bee and a wasp fighting	Large hornet
There are hundreds of ant species, all different sizes and colours this was a large slow moving species	This large ant seemed to have a body made up of seven segments, and false eyes on its abdomen	Boomerang midge	Hornbill and muntjack skulls in a trophy hunter’s cabinet
Fruit bats in one of the many caves	Leeches are everywhere in the damp forest. If bitten, the wound bleeds for a long time as the animal injects anticoagulants	This is a weird big earwig	Citrus indica, or memang narang; the wild orange at Nokrek National park: the site has became a Gene citrus sanctuary. The orange is endangered
Sundew: Drosera Burbaii	Pitcher plant: Nephanthes Khasiana	Small pitcher: Nephanthes species	Orchid
Orchid	Orchid	Cactus	Cat scat: could be one of several small to medium size cats such as marbled cat, golden cat or clouded leopard, Jungle or leopard cat
There are many typical western house plants here. The cheese plants, rubber plants and Aspidistra grow big in their native lands	Bracket fungi	Orange Bracket fungi	Whip scorpion
Forest scorpion	Hunter spider	Cave dwelling giant huntsman spiders: Holconia species	Giant huntsman spider hand size
Tube bodied spider	Yellow kite spider: Gasteracantha species		Giant orb weever: Nephila maculata
Nephila species	Argiope versicolor		A burrowing cricket. These large squat creatures are everywhere in India and southern Asia. They make underground tunnels with a conspicuous mound with an obvious hole, in sandy soils
		A brown bush cricket. These make very loud rattling song	Leaf mimicking green bush cricket
A marbled bamboo bush cricket	Bamboo mantis laying eggs