“Himalayas”

Rajasthan·birds · forest

Thanks to Abhishek Gulshan, we now realize that this is probably the Indian Scops Owl, a new sub-species that is closely related to the Collared Scops Owl.

flowers

Sorrel Sapphire forages on an Erigeron bellidioides (a wild daisy) flower at the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, India.

hills · snow

Good stock footage of massive glacier with lakes and mountain range in Ladakh, India. These are the head-waters of the Indus river system! Ladakh "land of high passes" is a region of India in the state of Jammu and Kashmir that extends from…

hills · village

Travel to the Himalayan village of Lakhat near Chausar in Uttaranchal in North India. Images of the picturesque landscapes of the lower Himalayas with a cover of mist amongst the evergreen conifer trees and grassy slopes along the hillsides…

West Bengal·hills · railway

Time lapse shot of Darjeeling from Gorkha Rangamancha Bhawan or Bhanu Bhawan and the clouds cover the whole city.

West Bengal·hills · river

View of Kanchenjunga range as seen from Sandakphu ridge through the clouds. Kangchenjunga is the third highest mountain in the world.

Himachal Pradesh·river · hills

The town of Kaza, Kaze or Kaja is the subdivisional headquarters of the remote Spiti Valley valley in the Lahaul and Spiti district of the state of Himachal Pradesh in the Western Himalayas of India.

Jammu and Kashmir

Mulbekh, located 45 km east of Kargil is an area dominated by the Buddhists structures. Situated inside Mulbekh Camba is the 9 m high sculpture of Maitreya, the future Buddha and is a must see place to visit.

hills

Good aerial stock footage of Indian Army encampment at Tangtse in Ladakh, Kashmir. Ladakh "land of high passes" is a region of India in the state of Jammu and Kashmir that extends from the Karakoram Range in the north to the main Great Hima…

hills · snow

Naturalists walking the jagged rocky mountainscape of Ladakh during their search for Snow Leopard in India. The snow leopard is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of Central and South Asia.

hills · livestock

Bharal or Himalayan blue sheep standing on high altitude mountain in Ladakh. The Bharal , also known as the Blue Sheep, is a high mountain sheep that is the primary prey of Snow Leopards.

hills

Ladakh is a region of Jammu and Kashmir,in the northernmost state of the Republic of India. It lies between the Kunlun mountain range in the north and the main Great Himalayas to the south, inhabited by people of Indo-Aryan and Tibetan desc…

temple · river

Indian pilgrims take part in the annual Yamunotri Yatra in Uttarakhand, India.Yamunotri is one of the Char Dham and it is also first place to visit in the Char Dham Circuit.

hills

This is a clear view of how mountain Hiunchuli is an extension of Annapurna South of the Annapurna Himal ranges. Annapurna South, also called Annapurna Dakshin or Moditse, is a mountain in the Annapurna Himal range of the Himalayas.

flowers · snow

Wild flora on the Gidara trek in Uttarakhand. Dayara Bugyal along with its twin Gidara Bugyal is perhaps one of the most beautiful alpine meadows in India.

flowers · hills

It is native to the Himalayas, northern Burma, Tibet and Yunnan Province in China where it is typically found in shady mountain areas, mountain meadows, slopes and woodlands.

flowers

Five Finger Cinquefoil ( Potentilla cuneata) is a small spreading perennial herb with solitary yellow flowers 1.3-2.5 cm across, borne on short stems, and with leaves with 3 small obovate leaflets which are coarsely toothed at the tip.

hills · river

Seen here are two keen fisherman angling for murrel. Mahseer is unarguably the best sport fish of India here in the clear Ramganga river which is famous world over for Mahseer and monster Catfish... They end up with a snakehead.

Uttarakhand·hills · school

Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) is a widespread winter visitor but is also a resident in the mountains of pakistan, Himalayas and Western Ghats and Srilanka. Long, rather broad tail; wing-tips more rounded than on most falcons.

birds · wildlife

Verditer Flycatcher is a beautiful sky-blue bird. This is an adult Asian verditer flycatcher, Eumyias thalassina, a member of the Old World flycatcher family, Muscicapidae.

hills · birds

It is lunch time for the barbets, and they have opted for wild Pear on their menu today. A colourful fella peaks around some fresh and juicy fruit. It flies and jumps from branch to branch, choosing what better suits his lunch needs.

birds · forest

Aethopyga ignicauda (Fire-tailed Sunbird). A couple of Fire-tailed Sunbirds are spotted to fly and almost look like paying during dusk. Some interactions between the individuals can be seen.

wildlife · birds

This image features a Rufous Sibia (Heterophasia capistrata) perched among leafless branches in a Himalayan forest habitat.

Assam·wildlife · forest

A great time taking a safari trip to Kaziranga National Park, Assam. Kaziranga National Park is a national park in the Golaghat and Nagaon districts of the state of Assam, India.