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birds · wildlife

Terpsiphone paradisi is surely one of the most elegant and graceful birds to be seen in India.

crafts · wildlife

Experience the movements of a Baya Weaver Bird as it comes to its nest and flies away in a slow motion. As it flies away each of the feathers in its wings are visible. This beautiful tiny little bird sits on the branch of a tree.

birds · wildlife

A Verediter flycatcher is sitting on the branch of a tree moving its head to and fro continuously. Theçwith its striking features and the black patched eye calls and scratches its feathers.

Rajasthan·wildlife · birds

Atop on the hillock of Jawai Bandh in Rajasthan stands a peafowl. The peafowl stares and looks all around.

wildlife · birds

White throated muniya or the Indian Silverbill can be seen sitting on the branch of a tree. The muniya chirps perching on the branch of a tree.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

At Corbett National Park, a nesting Red-breasted Parakeet feeds its young ones at the opening to their nest-hole... See how it uses its beak as a third leg - almost like a tripod.

wildlife · birds

A Hoopoe enjoys a dust bath on a dusty road in India. It splashes its open wings and feathers into the dust, in order to clean our mites and other parasites and allow the dust to clean its inner skin.

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wildlife · birds

Two pretty yellow and black birds of India - the mango bird of the Black-headed Oriole and the Common Iora seen in a village grove in Odisha, eastern India. Both love insects are live in wooded groves.

wildlife · birds

How cumbersome it must be for the male Peafowl to carry its ungainly trail of tail feathers around with him, jumping up walls, flying into trees to roost and so much more! What if someone steps on his tail feathers as he walks...? Indian pe…

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Used Spider's egg sacs make up the white shells you see on the outside of this Terpsiphone paradisi or Paradise Flycatcher nest made in the crook of a tree branch in Rajasthan, India.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

Rufous-winged Shrike Babbler or white browed shrike babbler in Landour. A viewer tells us this is a Himalayan Shrike-babbler.

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The White-browed Fantail Flycatcher is a bird of the forest under-storey and underbrush, but when it comes to nesting, it tends to find a folk of a branch higher up in a tree where it would be safe from predators.

wildlife · crafts

The Ploceus philippinus or the Common Baya Weaver Bird is one that is much eulogized in Indian mythology and a common resident of village outskirts and around farmlands. Not a common sight these days, what with rampant urbanization.

wildlife · birds

Male oriole is bright golden-yellow plumage; black stripe through the eye; black wings and centre of the tail. Female on the other hand yellow-green above; brownish-green wings; dirty-white below, streaked brown.

birds · wildlife

The Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea), is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa.

wildlife · birds

Sarus Crane (Antigone antigone), a majestic, large bird found in Australia, South-East Asia as well as in the Indian sub-continent. A large grey bird with a shock of red on its upper neck and head makes the bird easy to identify.

wildlife · crafts

Ploceous philippinus, the Common Weaver, known as the Baya in India, is a familiar sight in open country near grasslands and farmlands. They nest on palm trees or on open trees in agriculture, such as this Ber or Zizyphus tree.

Kerala·birds

Streptopeilia chinensis is the common and serene Spotted Dove of the Indian subcontinent. However, the Red-whiskered Bulbul, while a jocular and pleasing bird have around, has increased in numbers to a huge extent in places around Munnar an…

wildlife · forest

The Wreathed Hornbill is a denizen of the forests of north-east India. Often seen around our national parks, it nests in thick boles of forest trees, in natural hollows.

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The white-capped redstart or the white-capped water redstart (Phoenicurus leucocephalus) is a bird from the old world flycatcher family found in the Indian subcontinent and in South-east Asia.

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.

wildlife · birds

An Indian peacock roams around the looking for food. Peacock, any of three species of resplendent birds of the pheasant family, Phasianidae (order Galliformes). Strictly, the male is a peacock, and the female is a peahen; both are peafowl.