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Uttarakhand·birds · hills

The Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush (Monticola rufiventris) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in the northern regions of the Indian Subcontinent, eastwards towards parts of Southeast Asia.

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Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

The European Goldfinch is not a frequent sighting in India, so this March end sighting in 2013, in Landour, was a real treat. Also, see a lovely green creeper covering a khakshi tree, catching the light of the evening pre-winterline sun.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Pines are trees in the genus Pinus in the family Pinaceae. They make up the monotypic subfamily Pinoideae. There are about 115 species of pine, although different authorities accept between 105 and 125 species.

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Quintessential Winterline sunset from Landour Sunsets all stunning from wildfilmsindia's Jabbarkhet mountains, with winterline and clouds Sunrises and Sunsets over the western Himalaya, as seen from wildfilmsindia at Jabbarkhet

Uttarakhand·snow

Going for a walk in Landour, covered in a white sheet of snow in winter.

Uttarakhand·forest

Best of Langurs jumping - slow motion footage! We filmed this otherwise ordinary subject at 400 frames per second - see them in action around Landour, Mussoorie.

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Ixias pyrene, the yellow orange tip, is a small butterfly of the family Pieridae, that is, the yellows and white. This butterfly was seen in Landour Uttarakhand, among the colourful bracts of a bougainvillea.

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Beautiful silhouette mountain and moving clouds at dusk. Clouds resembling molten gold are moving in fast motion . These amazingly colourful picturesque beauty was filmed in Landour, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·birds

Grey headed woodpecker The Grey-headed Woodpecker (Picus canus), also known as the Grey-faced Woodpecker, is a Eurasian member of the woodpecker family Piciformes. It is 25--28 cm long and weighs 130-180 grams.

Uttarakhand·forest

The young langur briefly plays with its tail! Gray langurs or Hanuman langurs, the most widespread langurs of South Asia, are a group of Old World monkeys constituting the entirety of the genus Semnopithecus.

Uttarakhand·hills

Landour, a small cantonment town contiguous with Mussoorie, is about 35 km (22 mi) from the city of Dehradun in the northern state of Uttarakhand in India.

Uttarakhand·hills

Sitting within Childer's Lodge estate (now Nahata Estate), near the Top Tibba "doorbeen" point, a group of Garhwali men playing cards and smoking beedis in their spare time.

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Family of macaques sitting and grooming each other, Landour - Uttarakhand. The macaques constitute a genus (Macaca) of Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae.

Uttarakhand·forest

Group of Langurs eating tender leaves of oak tree sitting on the branches... Gray langurs or Hanuman langurs, the most widespread langurs of South Asia, are a group of Old World monkeys constituting the entirety of the genus Semnopithecus.

Uttarakhand·monsoon · hills

With the monsoon rains dripping off each fern frond, these ferns festoon all the oak and toon trees on the high ridge of Landour in Uttarakhand's western Himalaya, as the season turns misty and mysterious.

Uttarakhand·birds

One can see Verditer Fly Catcher at their nest feeding young ones... The verditer flycatcher (Eumyias thalassinus) is an Old World flycatcher found in the Indian subcontinent, especially in the Lower Himalaya.

Landour, Uttarakhand

These are Yellow Coster butterfly chrysalis laid on a water tank in Landour, Uttarakhand. The Yellow Coster, Acraea issoria, is a small, leathery-winged butterfly.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Verditer Flycatcher in Landour, as seen from our dining room window! This Verditer Flycatcher, most commonly seen in the middle Himalaya, was spotted in Landour, Mussoorie.

Landour, Uttarakhand·hills · birds

White-cheeked Bulbul on a Cedrela serrata or Mountain Toon tree, in Landour, Uttarakhand, India. The Himalayan sub-species has a crest atop its head.

Uttarakhand·hills

Landour, a small cantonment town contiguous with Mussoorie, is about 35 km (22 mi) from the city of Dehradun in the northern state of Uttarakhand in India.

Uttarakhand·architecture · temple

Landour has four Raj-era churches, Kellogg Church which was built in 1903, once American Presbyterian, now non-denominational, and also home to the Landour Language School.