“Himalayas”

West Bengal·flowers · hills

Monsoon clouds mill around the valley even as a Darjeeling Himalayan Pied Woodpecker, a Striated Laughing Thrush and a Yellow-crowned Woodpecker hunt for insects on the oaks around our blue-green valley of Agapanthus blooms in the Himalaya!…

flowers · hills

Some of the finest plum blossoms and then fruit come from the Wilderness Orchard and Botanical gardens in the western Himalaya. One can hear a White-crested Laughing Thrush calling in the background.

birds · forest

Scaly-bellied Woodpecker (Picus squamatus) is a resident in the foothills of Himalayas. The Scaly-bellied Woodpecker (Picus squamatus) is a species of bird in the Picidae family.

wildlife · birds

Grey-winged Blackbird feeds fledglings in their nest in the crook of a Himalayan Horse Chestnut tree. The male is a darker blue-black while the female is an olive green-brown in colour.

hills · wildlife

The sudden excitement of this swallow brood when a parent brings in food is both cute and comical.

wildlife · birds

The head, neck and breast are black with a bluish spotting on the crown. The shoulders and rump are a duller blue and the underparts are a greyish cream. The long tail is a brighter blue with a broad white tip.

wildlife · hills

This footage captures a male Kalij Pheasant (Lophura leucomelanos) moving cautiously through a rocky earth cavity and gravel-covered hillside in the Himalayan region of northern India.

birds · hills

Examine the diet of the cute little Ultramarine or White-browed Blue Flycatcher, as the mother and father bring food to their young ones. This includes a gloworn or bioluminescent insect, in one case.

wildlife · birds

A pair of Brown Dipper birds in spring. The male courts the female and tries to feed here even as they battle the cold blue waters of the Jalandhri Garh torrent above Harsil in the high Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

The piercing whistles of the Mountain Hawk Eagle are a familiar and inspiring reminder of the freedom and wilderness of the lower and middle Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

Collared Pygmy Owlet on an Quercus oak tree in Landour, Uttarakhand. 6th February, 2014. Glaucidium brodiei resides across the Himalaya and north-east India. it is really tiny and barred heavily.

birds · wildlife

A Himalayan Woodpecker (Dendrocopos himalayensis) clinging vertically to a moss-covered tree branch. The bird uses its strong bill to repeatedly peck at the tree's surface while searching for insects and larvae beneath the bark.

birds · wildlife

A Rufous-bellied Woodpecker (Dendrocopos hyperythrus) perched vertically on a moss-covered tree trunk in a Himalayan forest. The bird uses its beak to probe and remove bark while searching for insects.

wildlife · birds

What a sight! What an absolutely fabulous sight of wild birds coming together in such numbers to escape the harsher climes up north, in warmer balmier wintery India.

wildlife · birds

Demoiselle Cranes in flight over Rajasthan, returning from winter migration to cross the Himalaya. A flock of Common Cranes can be seen at the end of this clip.

birds · hills

Jungle Mynas invade hill country of endemic high altitude Himalayan birds. These are plains birds and not supposed to be straying so far up hill...

Uttarakhand·birds · forest

Jungle Myna seen at 7300 feet altitude on Oak trees around Mussoorie in the Himalaya - new altitude record of an invasive adaptable species. They are not supposed to be present in the mountains, as they are essentially a plains species.

birds · hills

The White-throated Laughing Thrush moves around in bands of 5 to 10 birds, one calling to the other to stay in touch. The call is a lovely ventiloquistic echoing whistle that is often heard across the lower hills of the Himalaya.

birds · wildlife

With many predators on the prowl, including a Yellow-throated Marten or tutrali, our distant protection of this nest yielded a successful clutch of fledged chicks! Notw how th parent flaps its wings, chick-style, in order to elicit a certai…

hills · birds

Hill Barbet has a wide range from the western to the eastern Himalaya, seen here in West Bengal's Dooars.

hills · flowers

That lovely call is that of a Lesser Scaly-bellied Green Woodpecker as it approaches our plum tree as it flowers, even as a Stripe-throated or Whiskered Yuhina looks around with great circumspection.

birds · wildlife

Deep blue bird catches evening light sitting on a Himalayan Cedar or deodar branch, and looks deceptively like a different bird but is really a Verditer Flycatcher in the Himalay, at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary in Uttarakhand.

forest · birds

This bird is known as the Black-capped Sibia or the Rufous Sibia which is its new name. The scientific name of the bird is Heterophasia capistrata. It's roughly the size of a bulbul and is around 21 cms. long.

hills · wildlife

Cheer Pheasant or bhoincheel calls out in its exquisite voice in the Kumaon Himalaya | Rare Himalayan Bird Sighting with a backdrop of the Chaukhamba range and nearby peaks. The sound of a conch shell or shankh can be heard nearby.