Dr. Suvrashis Sarkar

the Wildlife Photographer

Wildlife photography of Dr. Suvrashis Sarkar

Dr. Suvrashis Sarkar is a self-trained naturalist with acute interest in studying biodiversity and animal behaviour since 1996. He started documenting birds on field by sketching them in his field-notebook and this later on developed into photo documentation and a passion for Wildlife photography since 2007.

He has travelled to most locations of India covering varied biogeographies for photo documenting wildlife on field. Exploring seas, mangrove forests, rivers, marshes, arid deserts, jungle streams, jungles of Central, Western and North India, hill forests of the Western Ghats has resulted into photo documenting some very interesting, rare and lesser known Indian wildlife forming the repository of Dr. Sarkar’s wildlife photography. He is voluntarily working along with a few NGOs for the cause of Biodiversity conservation, for studying Wildlife biology and Ecology of species.

Dr. Suvrashis Sarkar is a Life Member of the Bombay Natural History Society since 1996.

His Wildlife photography gallery is as below:

Jungle Cat (Felis chaus affinis)

Brahminy Kite (Haliastur indus)

Purple Forest Crab (Ghatiana atropurpurea)

Malabar Crested Lark (Galerida malabarica)

North Western Ghats Dancing Frog (Micrixalus uttaraghati)

Babu Bladderwort (Utricularia babui)

Fan-throated Lizard (Sarada superba)

Banded Ground Gecko (Cyrtodactylus deccanensis)

Malaxis Ground Orchid (Malaxis versicolor)

Tiny-Lip Eria Orchid (Conchidium microchilos)

Bombay Bushfrog (Raorchestes bombayensis)

Spotted Owlet (Athene brama)

Bamboo Pit-Viper (Trimeresurus gramineus)

Marbled Ramanella (Uperodon mormoratus)

Male Pied Bushchat (Saxicola caprata)

Female Pied Bushchat (Saxicola caprata)

Green Vine Snake (Ahaetulla nasuta)

Indian Nightjar (Caprimulgus asiaticus asiaticus) also called the Little Nightjar

The Moon

Grey Nightjar (Caprimulgus indicus indicus) also called as the Jungle Nightjar

Large Grey Babbler (Turdoides malcolmi)

Sykes's Nightjar (Caprimulgus mahrattensis)

Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala)

Bamboo Pit-Viper (Trimeresurus gramineus)

Black-headed Ibis (Threskiornis melanocephalus)

Beddome's Cat Snake (Boiga beddomei)

A male Bluethroat (Luscinia svecica)

Crested Serpent Eagle (Spilornis Cheela)

Black Rajah (Charaxes solon)

Tawny Rajah (Charaxes bernardus)


Ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea)

Lesser Flamingo (Phoeniconaias minor)

Tiger (Panthera tigris)

Fungoid Frog (Hydrophylax malabaricus) also called as the Malabar Hill Frog


A female Roux's Forest Lizard (Calotes rouxii)

A male Roux's Forest Lizard (Calotes rouxii)

A female Baron (Euthalia aconthea)

Common Sailor (Neptis hylas)

Great black-headed gull (Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus) also called as the Pallas's gull

Indian Lesser Grass Blue (Zizina otis indica)

Western Marsh Harrier (Circus aeruginosus)

Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)

Indian eagle-owl (Bubo bengalensis)

A male Ashy-crowned Sparrow Lark (Eremopterix griseus)

Black Kite (Milvus migrans)

Brahminy Kite (Haliastur indus)

Lesser Flamingos (Phoeniconaias minor)

Changeable Hawk Eagle (Nisaetus cirrhatus)

Terek Sandpiper (Xenus cinereus)

Lesser Sand Plover (Charadrius mongolus)

Malabar Crested Lark (Galerida malabarica)

Great Knots (Calidris tenuirostris)

Rock Gecko (Hemidactylus maculatus)

Black-tailed Godwit (Limosa limosa)

Black-capped kingfisher (Halcyon pileata)

Collared Kingfisher (Todiramphus chloris humii)

Crested Serpent Eagle (Spilornis cheela)

Nilgiri Tahrs (Nilgiritragus hylocrius)

A male Calotes (Calotes versicolor)

Small blue Kingfisher (Alcedo atthis)

A male tiger with cub (Panthera tigris)

White-eared Bulbul (Pycnonotus leucotis)

Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

Porcelain Crab (Petrolisthes boscii)

Saltwater Crocodile (Crocodylus porosus)

Tiger (Panthera tigris)

Peacock Pansy (Junonia almana)

A female Palmfly (Elymnias hypermnestra undularis)

Oriental Honey Buzzard (Pernis ptilorhynchus)

Gull-billed Tern (Gelochelidon nilotica)

Lemon Pansy (Junonia lemonias)

Plum Judy (Abisara echerius)

Cricket Frog (Fejervarya limnocharis)

Leith's leaping frog (Indirana leithii)

Moon

Common Begonia (Begonia crenata)

Antlion Myrmeleontidae

Lantern bug (Zanna sps)

Bushbrowns mating (Mycalesis perseus)

Black Arches Moth or Nun Moth mating (Lymantria monacha)

Sykes's Nightjar (Caprimulgus mahrattensis)

White-footed desert fox (Vulpes vulpes pusilla)

Commander (Moduza procris)

Grey Pansy (Junonia atlites)

Indian Bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus tigerinus)

Juvenile Indian Bullfrog (Hoplobatrachus tigerinus)

Cerulean (Jamides celeno)

Blue Oakleaf (Kallima horsfieldi)