“Himalayas”

birds · hills

This Himalayan barbet has a green tail and yellow beak. They chisel out a hole inside a tree to build their nest. They are mainly fruit eating but will take insects.The great himalayan barbet's scientific name is Megalaema virens.

birds · hills

This Himalayan barbet has a green tail and yellow beak. They chisel out a hole inside a tree to build their nest. They are mainly fruit eating but will take insects.The great himalayan barbet's scientific name is Megalaema virens.

birds · hills

Young chick peering out of nest-hole. They are almost ready to fly out and explore the bigger world outside their tiny little nest-hole which is the only home they have known these past few weeks! Also, male Scaly-bellied Green Woodpecker a…

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Male Scaly-bellied Green Woodpecker at its nest-hole, feeding a chick! Scaly-bellied Green Woodpecker nesting in Landour, Mussoorie, India. This is a resident in the foothills and lower/middle hills of Himalaya.

birds · wildlife

A male Himalayan Woodpecker, a striking forest bird native to the Himalayan region. Perched vertically on the trunk of a tree, the bird displays several distinctive features that make it one of the most recognizable woodpeckers of the India…

wildlife · birds

Berberis lycium (Berberis lycium) shrubs are laden with ripe berries of Berberis aristata, attracting several Himalayan bird species for feeding.

Uttarakhand·river · wildlife

For the survival of such a remarkable gamut of floral and faunal species in Jim Jim Corbett National Park of Uttarakhand , water is a crucial factor.

birds

A Greater Yellownape Picus Flavinucha perches on a tree seemingly in a thought over going about its business.

hills · wildlife

Himalayan Vultures of Himalayan Griffon Vultures (Gyps himalayensis) fight over their meal of a carcass in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand.

wildlife · birds

Imagine the back-breaking effort (those bags weigh 50 kilograms each!) and cost for these poor villagers to share their precious food-stocks with visiting birds from across the Himalaya! Such is the hospitality of Indians in rural areas tha…

Assam·wildlife · forest

Birds eating carrion in Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India. Kaziranga National Park is a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the state of Assam, India.

hills · birds

Himalayan Barbet or the The Great Barbet (Megalaima virens) is an Asian barbet. Barbets are a group of near passerine birds with a worldwide tropical distribution. They get their name from the bristles which fringe their heavy bills.

birds · wildlife

The Great Barbet (Megalaima virens) is an Asian barbet. Barbets are a group of near passerine birds with a worldwide tropical distribution. They get their name from the bristles which fringe their heavy bills.

wildlife · birds

An Alpine Accentor (Prunella collaris), a hardy mountain songbird found in the high-altitude regions of the Himalayas, including Uttarakhand.

wildlife · birds

This video features the Rufous-bellied Woodpecker, a distinctive Himalayan woodpecker scientifically known as Dendrocopos hyperythrus, actively knocking its beak against a tree trunk in search of insects and larvae.

wildlife · birds

In this gentle and heartwarming wildlife moment, watch as two Rufous Sibias (Heterophasia capistrata) sit closely together on a thin branch and lovingly preen each other using their beaks.

wildlife · birds

Black-capped or Rufous Sibia is a common and melodious Himalayan bird. The rufous sibia (Heterophasia capistrata) is a species of bird in the Leiothrichidae family. It feeds on berries and insects.

Landour, Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

Collared Pygmy Owlet on an Quercus oak tree in Landour, Uttarakhand. Glaucidium brodiei resides across the Himalaya and north-east India. it is really tiny and barred heavily.

wildlife · forest

The dark grey-Bushchat (Saxicola ferreus) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Laos, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam.

wildlife · forest

The grey-Bushchat (Saxicola ferreus) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

wildlife · birds

A colony of Painted Storks perched on tree. Painted storks at their nesting site in Keoladeo National Park of Bharatpur, Rajasthan. The painted stork (Mycteria leucocephala) is a large wading bird in the stork family.

wildlife · birds

Foreign tourists disturb the peace of Demoiselle Cranes. They pay local school kids to make the cranes fly, thereby disturbing their afternoon siesta and rest time, prior to their return migration across the Himalaya.

Madhya Pradesh·birds · river

A lone Crested Hawk Eagle sits by Ken River and drinks water from it in Panna National Park, Madhya Pradesh, India. The Changeable Hawk-Eagle or Crested Hawk-Eagle (Nisaetus cirrhatus) is a bird of prey species of the family Accipitridae.

birds · hills

The Himalayan Woodpecker (Dendrocopos himalayensis) or Himalayan Pied Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family.