Founders Note

Hermis Haridas & Nisha Purushothaman

For frequent visitors to the Mara like us, there is no getting tired of the Lilac-breasted roller. These birds are indeed a sight for the safari-tired eyes. The colours just pop, and it feels as if they have a better temperament than supermodels posing for photographs.

Those streamers on the tails are great to watch and their mating behaviour is also quite an eye catchy. We are happy when visitors to our Mara Trails lodge spend time observing and photographing these birds. With their colour and eye catchy behaviours, the rollers definitely help the visitors to draw attention to the lesser-known species of the mara.

As always, while doing this edition, we were surprised by the beautiful images that the global PawsTrails community manages to cough up. Our thank you to all the wonderful photographer friends from around the world. Your images help bring life to Peter’s narrative and help our readers admire the beauty of nature from different places. As always at PT Aware it has been our goal to associate with the best in the fields of research, conservation, and photography to bring magical tales of species and conservation to our readers.

This is the final edition of PT Aware for the year 2022. We thank all our readers for your support and patronage.

Hermis Haridas & Nisha Purushothaman
Founders – Paws Trails Explorers