Delhi

birds

Riki Tiki Tawi comes avisiting! A pair of Indian Grey Mongoose or Herpestes edwardsii are seen outside their burrow at a park. They seem to be parent and juvenile eating something which cannot be identified in this clip.

An inquisitive Indian Grey Mongoose steps out of its burrow and scouts its surroundings at our Wilderness Orchard in Delhi. Mongoose are illegally traded for their fur which is used in paintbrushes and as a pet.

Can you see those paint brush hairs on the fur of this hapless animal? Yes, Indians have long harvested the thick hairs of the mongoose to make paint brushes with...

Eating something edible on the urban forest floor is this litter of neolas, and then scampering on to the stony pile next door, for shelter and a good meerkat like lookout point! Meet Riki, Tiki, Tawi and Ravi, our wildfilmsindia family of…

street food

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Light fluffy idli is prepared by steaming to accompany dosa sold at a road-side outlet in Delhi.

Chapatti or Roti making with a belan and on a tawa: See how the Indian flat bread of chapati is made.

See an old fashioned ow technology sawmill or timber operation at work in Delhi city, creating planks and furniture legs from old wooden trunks from trees that have been eaten away by termites. Truly Make in India at work!

bazaar

The carpet industry of Mirzapur was famous but has now been over-shadowed by machine made carpets and throws, rugs and killums. Their craft and livelihoods are thus endangered.

See a Common House Crow or Corvus splendens' nest with its clutch of pretty blue-brown speckled eggs in Delhi.

monsoon

After a successful breeding season, this Safed Titar family comes out - parent and chicks - to enjoy the monsoon-time termites or deemak in the ground.

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In this Moti Bagh park in South Delhi, a pair of Common Myna or Acridotheres tristis tristis have chosen to nest in a tree hollow.

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The chicks are now much larger, and their orange gapes have turned more burgundy-red in colour.

A lone Indian Grey Hornbill is spotted under the shade of trees on a hot summer day in New Delhi. A well developed casquet, so this must be an adult male since it is either absent or smaller in females and juveniles.

wildlife · birds

Camouflaged in the mud, this titar family is enjoying it's time in the mud at the wildfilmsindia preserve in Delhi...

birds · highway

A Brown-headed Barbet or Green Barbet sits atop a small tree near a road in South Delhi. Calm and scouting while making calls. You will spot them in tall trees in public parks and sidewalks. They are a very common species in urban areas.

A pair of Grey Hornbills regurgitates berries and Ficus figs for their chicks that are incarcerated in a Gul Mohor tree's hollow trunk nest hole, in the heart of New Delhi city.

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A House Crow couple (Corvus splendens) nurtures their two red-gaped youth in the nest high above the busy traffic of the Ring Road in New Delhi.

A pair of Wire-tailed Swallows perch on aluminium swimming pool ladder, before sallying forth for insects over the clear waters of the pool in a Delhi garden. They use it as a convenience launch pad.

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A Magpie Robin male can be seen at the entrance to its nest hole. This Magpie Robin pair breeds in a dried up old Silver Oak tree in Delhi and the songster couple successfully bring up their brood in this tree hollow, despite the heat, expo…

wildlife · birds

This Bee-eater prefers vertical sand banks for nesting but has settled for this modest mud pile for a semi horizontal nest hole, as it gets ample insect food at our Wilderness Orchard in Delhi.

lake · wildlife

This Jalmurghi cautiously approaches its nest and then comes in to incubate This waterhen comfortably and cautiously pads on to its nest in tall water grasses, within a wetland.

This wild Spotbill duck visits this swimming pool every day for its constitutional swim, while living in the big bad city.