“Himalayas”

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…

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.

birds · hills

A shock of Verditer blue gives away the male Verditer Flyatcher in the Himalaya Verditer Flycatcher has a lovely trilling call, male is deep sky blue while female is a lighter blue Deep sky blue Verditer Flycatcher at wildfilmsindia Motidha…

hills · wildlife

See what wildlife walks into our night time cameras in the Himalaya, from Deer to Himalayan Black Bear!

hills · wildlife

Camera trap footage of Barking Deer or Kakar as they gambol around on a grassy wintery meadow at wildfilmsindia forests in Himalaya

hills · wildlife

Rhododendron campanulatum shrubbery in the higher Garhwal Himalaya, interspersed with Himalayan Birch / Bhoj patra or Betula utilis forests, makes for excellent Monal Pheasant, Bharal or Blue Sheep and Musk Deer habitat!

birds · wildlife

Grey headed Canary Flycatcher at Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi, just before departing for Himalaya on their return migration at the end of winter.

hills · birds

People around the world eat certain varieties of ferns that have high iron content and are lovely to turn into a subzi of sorts, with a nice bitter-sweet vegetable taste.