“Himalayas”

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 · birds

White-throated Laughingthrushes feeding in a tree with small round fruit in a cool, misty Himalayan setting. The birds have olive-brown plumage, bright white throats and upper chests, warm buff underparts, and dark facial markings.

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.

wildlife · birds

A Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros) perches on a bare branch against a clear blue sky, warming itself in the morning sun.

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.

wildlife · snow

A well-planned attack turns to dross. The Snow Leopard was well concealed behind a rock and nicely placed just above the grazing Ibex.

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 · 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.

forest · wildlife

Rare archival footage of logging operations in the Himalaya in the early twentieth century. Tree trunks are being floated down a river, and moved along by men on canoes.

hills · wildlife

This video captures a Himalayan Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes montana) moving through the rough, arid mountain terrain of the high Himalayas.

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.

hills · forest

The Himalayan Tree Pie is a forest bird that lives in the middle Himalaya, is shy and retiring. It is related to the plains Tree Pie but is more often seen in thick forest and doesn't venture into hill stations gardens a lot.

hills · flowers

Flowering Rhododendron arboreum, commonly known as the tree rhododendron, in a Himalayan forest. The plant displays dense clusters of bright red, bell-shaped flowers across its canopy.

snow · wildlife

Snow leopards are so well adapted to their harsh mountainous habitat that even spotting them against a rocky backdrop can be almost impossible. The snow leopard’s powerful build allows it to scale great steep slopes with ease.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

Orthetrum sabina, commonly known as the green marsh hawk or slender skimmer, is seen delicately perched on a fresh green leaf in Jabarkhet Nature Reserve, near Mussoorie.

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

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.

hills · forest

The red face lappet and white kalgi or head-dress feathers stand out in prominence, as the male Kaleej uses all the tricks in its book to impress the female bird nearby, at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the Himalaya.

wildlife · hills

Musk deer are artiodactyls of the genus Moschus, the only genus of family Moschidae. Moschus moschiferus is the Himalayan or Siberian Musk Deer.

hills · wildlife

The footage captures a rare and intimate moment in the high Himalayas, where a mother Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia) is seen resting closely with her two cubs, huddled together on rugged mountain terrain.

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…

forest · hills

A male Dark Grey Bush Chat nests in wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the Himalaya, and successfully fetches grubs and bees for its chicks within the nest in a hillside earth bank, between flowering Eregeron bellidioides daisies.

forest · hills

Climate change has truly started to bite. Large swathes of pristine Himalayan forests were destroyed in the spring of 2021, due to inordinate dryness, lack of rain and humidity, and the carelessness of tourists and villages wherein someone…