birds

birds · hills

This cheery Laughing Thrush is actually accompanied by the audio or calls of the Hill Barbet, but when in a noisy gaggly group, the White-crested has a bubbly loud call...

wildlife · birds

Kabootars or Blue Rock Pigeons are few of the birds that have adapted superbly to the growing cities worldwide. They have adapted so well indeed that they have become close to being pests.

wildlife · birds

This Jay shyly approaches its nest to not let predators know if its nesting location. Sitting at our wildfilmsindia estate in Motidhar, the Jay collect rootlets from the ground for its nest, as it's still in construction mode.

wildlife · birds

What smart colours - the light rufous with the blue wing patch! This Jay shyly approaches its nest to not let predators know if its nesting location.

highway · birds

A Kauwa or Indian House Crow tends to its nest and attends housekeeping duties of cleanliness, hygiene, feeding the chicks, clearing their poop and maintaining the nest's integrity to make sure it doesn't collapse in a storm or a light bree…

Uttarakhand·river · wildlife

What a natter bird the forktail is, with the demeanour and movements of a ballerina! The elegant tail is held high and periodically wiggled around to provide a nice contrasty black and white look! It overturns leaves at the moist edges of o…

Uttarakhand·hills · forest

The elegant grey and mild rufous of the Himalayan TreePie nicely complements the white throat patch and rufous underbelly of the White-throated Laughing Thrush as they carouse together to dig in the oak forest floor, for food and seeds, at…

wildlife · birds

The male Jay feeds the female a juicy morsel, in a form of courtship. They both then descend on a patch of flowering clover for furtherance of their courtship...

birds · hills

Listen to this bird call and tell me you haven't heard it while walking in mountain forests or sitting in a hill station garden...!? Is that a Slaty Blue Flycatcher at the end of this video? Please help us identify and confirm the same! It…

birds · forest

This Streaked Laughing Thrush couple have decided to nest in a shrub, in April 2021, at our wildfilmsindia Motidhar estate forests.

birds · wildlife

With a tone of familiarity, we have nick-named this common and friendly mountain bird as a 'Laughie'. This Streaked Laughing Thrush couple have decided to nest in a shrub, in April 2021, at our wildfilmsindia Motidhar estate forests.

highway · birds

This little chick was over-enthusiastic and tipped out of its nest. It has fallen out of its nest and from the tree and lies helplessly on the ground, looking both scared and foolish. See how the rescue takes place.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

It's summer time in the forests of the lower Himalaya, and also breeding time for birds... The 'Three Cheers' bird is the erstwhile Black-capped Sibia now known as the Rufous Sibia, seen here in the company of a White-cheeked Bulbul, a voca…

Uttarakhand·birds · river

A Himalayan or Grey Treepie sits on a walnut tree, among fresh new leaves. A Hill Barbet calls while a Paradise Flycatcher turns up one fine day at our wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary at Motidhar in Mussoorie.

forest · hills

A pair of loyal-to-each-other cheery jocular White-cheeked Bulbuls with head crests and yellow vents or under tail patches sit on a shrub at the wildfilmsindia sanctuary at Pari Tibba, Motidhar, and call out to the world, even as a Hill Bar…

birds · hills

Listen to this bird call and tell me you haven't heard it while walking in mountain forests or sitting in a hill station garden...!? Is that a Slaty Blue Flycatcher at the end of this video? Please help us identify and confirm the same! It…

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

The Blue-throated Barbet is a foothills Barbet that makes it way up into the middle Himalaya at Motidhar. Typically, one hears it in the foothills of the Terai and Shivaliks, or at Corbett Park if you're staying at Kanda Forest Rest House.

hills · forest

The white wing streaks elegantly offset the black wings and the slaty grey neck of this forest and mountain treepie.

birds · hills

Two lovely Himalayan Woodpeckers at the wildfilmsindia Motidhar estate: Rufous-bellied Woodpecker and Yellow-naped Woodpecker: two colourful Himalayan katphora species.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

What a lovely cacophony of calls - the Hill Barbet of the higher hills clashes with the Blue-throated Barbet of the doars and terai, but they actually meld together beautifully.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

On your next trip to the mountains and forests around them, listen out for this call and you can look around you and find the Red-winged Shrike Babbler, a lovely albeit shy mountain forest bird well worth looking out for! Filmed here at the…

Uttarakhand·birds

This Rufous-bellied Sapsucker or Rufous-bellied Woodpecker (Dendrocopos hyperythrus) looks for its meal just below the bark of a coniferous tree in the Mussoorie area of Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

You will have doubtless heard the Kulchure or Himalayan Whistling Thrush even if you have not seen it, on a visit to the mountains up north! The trilling loud whistle of the Whistling Thrush, most often heard in the monsoons, is a familiar…