birds

Rajasthan·forest · wildlife

The Treepie is a bird of open forest. In here, we can see this fella jumping from branch to branch at Keoladeo National Park in Bharatpur. This is only one of the numerous bird species you will be able to observe at this bird sanctuary.

Uttarakhand·birds

This small fella is one of the indian species of woodpeckers. A small pied woodpecker originally described by the English ornithologist John Latham in 1801.

birds · wildlife

This is the ubiquitous Pond Heron - the most common water bird in India. Behind it stands an Indian Moorhen.

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A female White-browed Blue flycatcher is seen approaching a nest in the hollow crook of an oak tree, in slow-motion, carrying a moth in her beak with which to feed to her chicks.

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forest · birds

An Orange-breasted Blue Flycatcher on bamboo. Is that a Black-headed Oriole? Nope, but it does look like one. Also see a Red Junglefowl skulk into forest cover and a Sirkeer Cuckoo or Malkoha in a central Indian forest

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The Purple-rumped Sunbird is seen more in South India, while the common sunbird of the north is the Purple Sunbird or Nectarania asiatica. They build nests that look like little garbage accumulations.

wildlife · birds

Unlike the very much more familiar and even urban Red-wattled Lapwing or titeeri, the Yellow-wattled is a shier cousin who prefers arid dry lands and uncultivated tracts, opting to lead a spartan life among pebbles or kankar, dry grasses an…

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White spots and speckles nicely adorn this powerful Eagle's plumage. The Crested Serpent Eagle actually eats snakes and hence its name. It also eats smaller birds, squirrels and mice/rats.

birds · wildlife

With its shrill piercing squeal and the delicate long crest feathers that can rise when it is threatened or wants to intimidate, the Crested Hawk Eagle is truly a bird of thick forests in India.

monsoon · birds

Bluethroat bathes on a sunny rainfall day. Beautiful thrush-like bird that tends to stay hidden. Dull gray above, but a head-on view reveals a stunning pattern of electric blue and orange on the throat.

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What a beautiful forest owl from south India! Is that a Tawny or a Buffy Fish Owl that we see here?

wildlife · crafts

Salim Ali, the famous Indian ornithologist, famously described the breeding biology of the Common Baya or Weaver Bird (Ploceus philippinus.).

wildlife · birds

The Black-headed Oriole, known locally as the peelak or the Mango bird, is one of the most pleasing birds to encounter in India! The whistling mellow voice, the mango-like plumage and the flash of yellow you see as of flies by - you will be…

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The White-naped Woodpecker Chrysocolaptes festivus is found throughout India. This is a female in action, digging away at dead wood in search of insect matter and larvae.

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The white-breasted kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis) is a tree kingfisher, belonging to the family Alcedinidae. The plumage of white-breasted kingfisher is bright blue on the back, rump, wings and tail.

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Like a disembodied face, this Common Indian Myna or Acridotheres tristis is a common bird in India, but it looks rather unusual and rare in this image, as it stares us down with its cure eye lashes and white-dot ringed eyes, its beak open t…

wildlife · birds

Salim Ali, the famous Indian ornithologist, famously described the breeding biology of the Common Baya or Weaver Bird (Ploceus philippinus.).

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The Common Myna is brown with a black head. It has a yellow bill, legs and bare eye skin. In flight it shows large white wing patches. The Common Myna is a member of the starling family and is also known as the Indian Myna or Indian Mynah.

wildlife · birds

A flock of Demoiselle Cranes flies in V formation. Migrating birds fly in a V-formation to take advantage of the aerodynamic effects of flying behind another bird.

flowers · birds

A White-browed Fantail Flycatcher piroeuttes about at the edge of a forest, on a garden fence. It periodically fans open its tail - a habit that gives it its name. Also see a Grey Tit (Parus spp.) and a Magpie Robin in Karnataka.

Landour, Uttarakhand·hills · birds

At the Wilderness Orchard and Botanical gardens in Landour, Mussoorie, a Himalayan Pied Woodpecker gets to work on a dead wood log of deodar wood at the Jabbarkhet Estate, and then moves to a live Oak, banj or Quercus incana tree.

wildlife · birds

Rosy Starlings or Rosy Pastors and a Magpie Robin seem to be calling in the backdrop as this hariyal or Green Pigeon preens itself, digests the Ficus fruit in its stomach, processes it from its gizzard and simultaneously poops it out from t…