birds

birds

A crested serpent eagle ( Spilornis cheela) perches on a dry branch. It looks brown in the breast and belly with white mottlings and black on the head. They are non-migratory and carnivorous with snakes as their main diet.

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A purple heron (Ardea purpurea) stands in rapt attention with its mirror image on the surface of the water. The wading bird feeds on insects, crustaceans, fishes, small mammals, and amphibians.

birds · crafts

A list of different Indian small birds. A male common baya weaver ( Ploceus philippinus) perched on a reed and feeding on its grains. A male plum-headed parakeet (Psittacula cyanocephalia) perches on a thorny branch.

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A female robin (Saxicoloides fulicatus) on the ground with its tail jerking up and down. A male brahminy myna or brahminy starling (Sturnia pagodarum) on the tree puffing up its crest and feathers.

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A White-browed Fantail Flycatcher (Rhipidura aureola) perches on a branch. An Ashy-crowned Finch Lark or Ashy Crowned Sparrow Lark(Eremopterix griseus) on a thorny branch giving out calls.

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A crested hawk-eagle or changeable hawk-eagle(Nisaetus cirrhatus) sits on the grass with its torn prey underneath its talons. Its crest puffs up with feathers of its prey dangling off its beak.

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A male pied kingfisher ( Ceryle rudis) sits on top of a concrete embankment of a huge water body. It takes flight to perch on a boulder and look for prey near the water. It usually hovers or perch and look for food in the waters nearby.

monsoon · wildlife

A crested pied cuckoo or Jacobin cuckoo (Clamator jacobinus), perches on a curved branch. It is also known as rain bird because of its migratory nature of arriving few days before the monsoon kicks off.

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A male lesser yellow nape woodpecker (Picus chlorolopus) pecking on a small branch filled with lichen. The woodpecker is feeding on ants and is furiously pecking on the wood.

birds · wildlife

A black drongo (Dicrurus macrocerus), sits in its nest on a branch. It is considered a watchdog for other birds breeding around it.

wildlife · birds

A juvenile common hawk-cuckoo or Brainfever bird perches on a dry bamboo as it waits to be fed my a long tailed-shrike (Lanius schach). The long tailed-shrike comes flying down with a caterpillar between its beak to feed the cuckoo.

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White-bellied Woodpecker perched on a tree bores into a branch with its beak excavating the deadwood looking for insects and larvae.

Madhya Pradesh·birds

This Spilornis cheela sits in alert mode along a water body at Panna National Park, awaiting its chance at serpentine or other prey in this post-monsoon season. We were not able to show you its lovely uplifted crest in this shot, sadly.

river · birds

A Pied Kingfisher ruffles its feathers to shake off excess water after a successful dive. See the water droplets fly! It has caught a river fish in the Ken River and proceeds to flick it in the air and perfectly catch it each time, and batt…

birds · wildlife

An Indian male peafowl (Pavo cristatus) takes flight from a branch to another, spreading its wide colorful wings, in a most laborious flight. The male peafowl is unique with colourful plumage and a long tail which is absent in females.

birds · wildlife

An adult Changeable Hawk-eagle or Crested Hawk-eagle perches on a branch in Kabini Reserve Forest in Karnataka. With bird calls and ambiance of the forest, the bird stays with rapt attention looking for prey.

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A Blue-tailed Bee-eater (Merops philippinus) perches on a branch and stretches itself. It is catching bees with quick movements of the head from an open perch. A Brown rock chat (Oenanthe fusca) sits camouflaged on a pile of rocks.

wildlife · birds

A Greater Flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) is foraging for food beneath the water surface. A due of Black-winged stilt (Himantopus himantopus)can be seen along with other aquatic birds.

birds · flowers

The pilkhan tree has berries of Ficus growing on its twigs and stems. Birds love the wild Ficus figs! The Blossom-headed Parakeet (Psittacula roseata) is a parrot which is a resident breeder in northeast India eastwards into Southeast Asia.…

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A Pied Kingfisher (Ceryle rudis) sits on a rock with its meal between its beak. The kingfisher twists and shakes its neck to incapacitate the fish. It ruffles its feathers while sitting on the rock before flying away with its meal.

hills · wildlife

A rather small passerine bird, a male Grey Bushchat (Saxicola ferreus) roosts on a dry branch of a conifer. These birds inhabit the higher altitudes of the Himalayan mountain range.

Uttarakhand·birds

A brightly colored barbet with a heavy yellow bill, with bristles at its base–maroon-brown with violet blue-black head; olive-brown, blue, and yellow below with a bright scarlet patch under the tail. The sexes are alike.

hills · forest

A Himalayan Pied Woodpecker (Dendrocopos himalayensis) pecks on the bark of a deodar tree trunk looking for food. It is a widely distributed species in northern India at the higher altitudes.