“Himalayas”

Rajasthan·village · wildlife

Crossing the Himalaya at great risk to themselves, these wIld Cranes visit India each winter in the thousands, and come to this village to get fed by the villagers: Who says we humans cannot co-exist with our wildlife? WIld Cranes at Pakshi…

birds · hills

A Himalayan Pied Woodpecker cleans our excavated saw dust and dug out wood chips from inside a nest: Avian housekeeping and cleaning.

hills · birds

Is that first shot a Ferrugineous Flycatcher perhaps. If so, it may be a new record for the Garhwal Himalaya! Rufous Sibia sits in warm evening light, flits around on fungus ridden branch in middle Uttarakhand A plump little Rufous Sibia fl…

birds · hills

Seen in the central Indian open plains are a Long-tailed or Bay-backed Shrike, a Common Babbler and a a spunky energetic Himalayan Black lored Tit.

forest · wildlife

Dark-Grey Bush Chat male approaches chicks with insect feed in its beak, at wildfilmsindia sanctuary Bird eating insect Uttarakhand A male Dark Grey Bush Chat nests in wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the Himalaya, and successfully fetches grubs…

wildlife · birds

This could well be a rare sighting from Nagaland, certainly the first video documented one, of the rare subspecies I. x.

Uttarakhand·birds · flowers

As a Maroon Oriole calls - or rather whistles - out aloud and a Verditer Flycatcher trills nearby, it's time for a Rhododendron floral nectar feast for this lovely, reclusive and rarely seen bird - the Rusty cheeked Scimitar Babbler is a lo…

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

With the Common Hill Partridhe of Peora calling, and the sight of a Chestnut bellied Rock Thrush, truly a Himalayan bird straight out of one's childhood around Landour. The female is more drab compared to the colourful male.

birds · hills

Grey-winged Blackbird female brings in ripe dark blue Berberis or kingod berries for its chicks to eat See these super cute Thrush chicks with little fresh feather tufts on their ears! Grey-winged Blackbird is one of the finest songsters in…

wildlife · birds

Rosy Starling enjoy the Delhi spring, take in some warmth and sunshine before the big migration north. Hordes of Rosy Pastors flock through Delhi in the early summer, as they head north on their migration.

hills · birds

Soft fur ball chicks of White-throated Laughing Thrush as they sleep in their secure Himalayan nest, only waking up when a parent comes to the nest with food.

forest · birds

Long-tailed Broadbill is a rarely-seen bird in Garhwal, as it is more of an eastern Himalayan species. It wags its tail while sitting on a pine tree at our wildfilmsindia conservation lands in Uttarakhand.

forest · wildlife

The Black Baza also trips over and loses balance as it tries to poach on ants on its branch, in addition to the green locust treat in its talons! This Black Baza eats ants that pass on a small tree branch, all the while consuming a rodent t…

hills · birds

We were camped out in the grasslands of the lower Himalaya during one of our expeditions to try and re-discover the thought-to-be-extinct Mountain Quail.

forest · birds

This is an unusual sighting as this raptor is generally found below 5000 feet in altitude. Here, it is sighted at 7300 feet in the western Himalaya, in a mixed Oak forest.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

A real mountain predator - the Mountain Hawk Eagle sits here with its jaunty head crest atop Chir Pine tree at the wildfilmsindia forested Estate at Motidhar in Mussoorie in the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Grey-winged Blackbird shyly skulks on Himalayan wild pear tree and feeds on fruit, while keeping its fine whistling voice silent! Grey-winged Blackbird is one of India's finest songsters, even as it silently pecks around for insects A Grey…

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

Grey winged Blackbird has an orange beak, and skulks in walnut tree at Pari Tibba Estate, in Motidhar, Mussoorie Grey-winged Blackbird is one of India's finest songsters: Hear the lovely calls in the Himalaya A Grey winged Blackbird scrabbl…

birds · hills

Sounding like the typical audio track of an English country garden, this thrush screams out its territorial calls down the valley, with the added soundtrack of the Hill Barbet's 'piao-piao' call that reverberates through the Himalayan valle…

hills · forest

The white wing streaks elegantly offset the black wings and the slaty grey neck of this forest and mountain treepie.

hills · wildlife

On a deodar Himalayan Cedar tree and then a fruiting Himalayan tree is this noisy squawking trio of fruit marauding Mag-n-pies! Stealing magpies or crow kin? Red-billed Blue Magpies are smart attractive long-tailed hill birds seen here arou…

wildlife · forest

A male Dark Grey Bush Chat sits on wild palak seeding stalk and flicks its tail repeatedly, anxious to feed its chicks nearly. The nest is trickily located on the ground, under a Berberis shrub nearby.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Kotwal chidiya or Grey Drongo has a ruby red eye 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.

village · wildlife

Why can human beings not exist and work together as closely as this large flock of Demoiselle Crane bird at Shree Pakshi Chuggaghar Sanstha Rajasthan? Migrating Cranes enjoy the hospitality of Indian villagers who feed them 1800 kilograms o…