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birds

The Little Egret feeds on a wide variety of invertebrates, as well as fish and amphibians. The Little Egret hunts in shallow water by shuffling a foot to stir up aquatic prey, which it then takes in a lightning-fast movement.

birds · hills

Beautiful Himalayan birds: Black-capped or Rufous Sibia, Himalayan Pied Woodpecker, Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush, Verditer Flycatcher, female Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush and the couple together.

wildlife · forest

That lovely trilling call you hear is that of the Indian Junglefowl - the progenitor of all domestic fowl around the world! It is followed by the click-click-click of a White-breasted Kingfisher and the distant calls of a Blue-throated Barb…

birds

The call of the Crimson-breasted Barbet sounds like the distant hammering on metal by a coppersmith. It's a repeated, monotonous (even ventriloquistic) wuk-wuk-wuk call! Hence, this quaint name for a bird...

flowers · birds

A Rose-ringed Parakeet eats flowers of Red Silk cotton tree at our Wilderness Orchard in Delhi. Bombax ceiba, like other trees of the genus Bombax, is commonly known as cotton tree.

wildlife · birds

Pied or White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) running along the beaches of Bakkhali, West Bengal, India.

river · birds

The beautiful Eurasian Kingfisher on a rock along the fast flowing Ramganga river in Kumaon, Uttarakhand. The beautiful common kingfisher is patiently waiting for its prey on a river bank of Kumaon.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Himalayan Whistling Thrush or the Blue Whistling Thrush, also known as the Whistling schoolboy! The bird fans its tail out when it is about to fly, and is known as Kalchure in Nepali.

Rajasthan·wildlife · birds

The blue-tailed bee-eater (Merops philippinus) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It breeds in southeastern Asia. It is strongly migratory, seen seasonally in much of peninsular India.

Himachal Pradesh·wildlife · birds

The European goldfinch or goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis), is a small passerine bird in the finch family that is native to Europe, North Africa and western Asia.

Himachal Pradesh·wildlife · birds

The European goldfinch or goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis), is a small passerine bird in the finch family that is native to Europe, North Africa and western Asia.

Himachal Pradesh·wildlife · birds

The pipits are a cosmopolitan genus, Anthus, of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. Along with the wagtails and longclaws, the pipits make up the family Motacillidae.

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.

wildlife · birds

The White Wagtail is mostly an aquatic bird, but this species can be common in various types of habitats, as well near water to hunt as in urban parks and cities for roosting in trees.

birds

Pygmy owls are members of the genus Glaucidium. They belong to the typical owl family, Strigidae, one of the two generally accepted living families of owls. The genus consists of about 26 to 35 species distributed worldwide.

Rajasthan·birds · wildlife

A Purple Moorhen eats off its foot! Have you ever heard of a bird using its foot as a hand to collect foot and feed itself? Perhaps with a parakeet but not a water bird, surely!

Rajasthan·wildlife · birds

The black-necked stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus) is a tall long-necked wading bird in the stork family. It is a resident species across the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia with a disjunct population in Australia.

Madhya Pradesh·birds · river

Orange-breasted Blue Flycatcher, a Leaf Warbler and a Crested Serpent Eagle sitting atop a tall tree, on the look-out for prey, at Panna National Park, in central's India's Madhya Pradesh state.

birds

Red-vented Bulbul sits on eggs to incubate them on hidden nest in a Wisteria creeper in Delhi garden Red-vented Bulbul hides away and makes a summer-time nest in a Wisteria creeper, watch it sew the twigs and stems together, and into a nest…

Rajasthan·wildlife · birds

Migratory Demoiselle Cranes flying over rural Khichan village in Rajasthan, India. The demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo) is a species of crane found in central Eurasia, ranging from the Black Sea to Mongolia and North Eastern China.

hills · wildlife

A stunning shot of a pair of Himalayan Snowcock flying off! Those are not Tibetan Snowcock, surely...

wildlife · birds

Migratory Demoiselle Cranes flying over rural Bishnoi village in Rajasthan, India. The demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo) is a species of crane found in central Eurasia, ranging from the Black Sea to Mongolia and North Eastern China.

wildlife · birds

The Demoiselle Crane is a species of crane that breeds in Central Asia and winters in India. These cranes migrate to Africa and South Asia in winter. The Demoiselle is 85--100 cm long with a 155--180 cm wingspan.