
Black Kite perched on a blooming Silver Oak tree
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A Black Kite (Milvus migrans) perched high among the branches of a Silver Oak (Grevillea robusta), also known as the Southern Silky Oak.
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Bee-eater on a dhak, tesu, palash or Flame-of-the-Forest tree. The feathers of a bee-eater often get ruffled in the wind, as in this case! The Green Bee-eater, Merops orientalis, (sometimes Little Green Bee-eater) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family. It is resident but prone to seasonal movements and is found widely distributed across sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal and The Gambia to Ethiopia, the Nile valley, western Arabia and Asia through India to Vietnam. They are mainly insect eaters and they are found in grassland, thin scrub and forest often quite far from water. Several regional plumage variations are known and several subspecies have been named. This footage is part of the professionally-shot stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection
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