“monsoon”

wildlife · monsoon

A One-horned Rhinoceros calf in Assam's Kaziranga is trapped in flooded waters during the monsoons. Locals are seen crossing the floodwaters with the calf on a wooden canoe and taken to the wildlife rehabilitation center.

wildlife · birds

Chicks beg for food from their parents, orange gapes open and quivering, even as one chick fledges and drops from the nest...

birds · hills

A shock of Verditer blue gives away the male Verditer Flyatcher in the Himalaya Verditer Flycatcher has a lovely trilling call, male is deep sky blue while female is a lighter blue Deep sky blue Verditer Flycatcher at wildfilmsindia Motidha…

birds · wildlife

Having just fledged from their nests in the early monsoon season, these White-throated Laughing Thrush chicks frantically open and close their feathers to attract Mum's attention, to be fed: Laughing Thrushes.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · forest

Into our camera traps at the Jabbarkhet and Pari Tibba wildlife sanctuaries of wildfilmsindia in Uttarakhand walk not just trespassing human neighbours but welcome ones too, such as this lovely leopard and , on a misty July monsoon night,…

Kerala·wildlife · flowers

The panther or leopard is not a common sight in the Nilgiris and Western Ghats mountains around Munnar in Kerala.

forest · wildlife

Two wild dogs engage in playful banter in the lush monsoon vegetational profusion of a central Indian forest. The two dholes have a light caramel - gold colouring and their tails are tipped with black.

wildlife · birds

See the shy sex of the Keol species. Even the male Koel cuckoo is more often seen streaking across the sky, with a pair of crows in hot pursuit, but the female is hardly ever seen, and when it is seen, it is often mistaken for a baaz or a S…

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Deep sky blue Verditer Flycatcher at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet: A prettier Himalayan bird there isn't! Verditer Flycatcher quivers its tail as it delivers it's lovely trilling call! Deep blue bird catches monsoon light It's tail quivers as…

wildlife · birds

The Sarus crane is the tallest flying bird in the world standing 152-156 cm tall with a wingspan of 240cm. It has a predominantly grey plumage with a naked red head and upper neck and pale red legs.

industry · wildlife

A Grey Partridge on an Aravalli native tree. Ranthambhor National Park and Sariska Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan, Mahavir Vanasthali garden in Delhi and Aravalli stone mining: Archival footage from 1990's.

wildlife · birds

A juvenile common hawk-cuckoo or Brainfever bird perches on a dry bamboo as it waits to be fed my a long tailed-shrike (Lanius schach). The long tailed-shrike comes flying down with a caterpillar between its beak to feed the cuckoo.

wildlife · birds

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

wildlife · birds

What fungus species is that orange one growing on a fallen wooden log in the Delhi monsoon? A sequence of urban wildlife in Delhi, India shows varied species and behaviors across a single landscape.

wildlife · birds

Darzi chidiya: Common Tailor Bird seen at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi is a universally known bird The Tailor Bird completes the nest and then begins to incubate its eggs, after laying them...

birds · wildlife

Birds of Jhalana: Jhalana is home to a lot of bird species. And almost an equal number come here for monsoons and for breeding.

wildlife · birds

Common Tailor Bird stitches its nest with elan: India's darzi chidiya also known as Orthotomus sutorius for sutures that it makes.

wildlife · birds

A Darzi chidiya creates sutures to expertly stitch together its leaf nest. Expertly and deftly weaving the cotton fibers it has collected from plants and leaves, this Tailor Bird makes little holes in two Teak tree leaves that it has brough…

wildlife · birds

Chicks beg for food from their parents, orange gapes open and quivering, even as one chick fledges and drops from the nest...

birds · wildlife

A pair of Pied Myna or Asian Pied Starling (Gracupica contra or Sturnus contra contra) is seen sitting on top of a mango tree in Delhi during the monsoon. Pied Mynas are one of the common birds in urban areas.

wildlife · birds

The Sarus crane is the tallest flying bird in the world standing 152-156 cm tall with a wingspan of 240cm. It has a predominantly grey plumage with a naked red head and upper neck and pale red legs.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

You will have doubtless heard the Kulchure or Himalayan Whistling Thrush even if you have not seen it, on a visit to the mountains up north! The trilling loud whistle of the Whistling Thrush, most often heard in the monsoons, is a familiar…

highway · wildlife

Roads of New Delhi! A Maruti Gypsy or Suzuki Samuri of the Indian Air Force and a Tata truck of the Indian Army, and a construction or road cleaning crane all negotiate the monsoon flooded roads of Delhi.

birds · wildlife

Kotwal chidiya or Grey Drongo has a ruby red eye, a forked tail and bluish-grey plumage that makes it stand out and be most visible, especially as it sits on vantage points and the tops of trees, in our middle hills in the western Himalaya.…