birds

birds

Earlier considered to be a part of the Thrush family, Oriental Magpie Robins are now considered to be from the family of flycatchers. Commonly seen in gardens through most of the Indian subcontinent, these birds are brilliant songsters.

birds

A Purple Sunbird female is brown and yellowish while the male is a shockingly iridescent purple in colour.

birds · flowers

The small red flowers of the Hamelia patens shrub are full of nectar and thus attracts a lot of bees and nectar-eating birds.

birds · wildlife

This apparent garbage agglomeration is actually the nest of a beautiful bird - the Purple Sunbird of India.

birds

This Sleepy Owl - a Collared Scops Owl chick grimaces in the daylight, as it looks terribly sleepy and cute in the daylight. It is also vibrating its throat in a strange fashion. Help us interpret this behaviour in the hot summer sun.

forest · birds

This Jungle Babbler chick seems to have fallen to the ground from its nest. The panicky parent keeps feeding it on the ground and stays close to protect its chick.

flowers · birds

A male Purple Sunbird in full breeding plumage as well as a female feed on nectar from the red flowers of a Hamlia Patens shrub. Purple Sunbirds (Cinnyris asiaticus) primarily feed on nectar but also eat small insects.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Spring-time Himalayan birds of Mussoorie, Motidhar and Jabbarkhet, in wildfilmsindia forests and gardens: Black-crowned Jay, Cicada insect, Scaly-bellied Green Woodpecker, Himalayan Barbet, Peony buds, Himalayan Tree Pie, Blue-throated Barb…

birds

A summer time puddle tends to have a life of its own in terms of the visitors it attracts! This gang of Red-vented Bulbul is making full use of the surplus water on a hot day.

birds

This Sleepy Owl - a Collared Scops Owl chick grimaces in the daylight, as it looks terribly sleepy and cute in the daylight. It is also vibrating its throat in a strange fashion. Help us interpret this behaviour in the hot summer sun.

birds

One Bargat tree can attract huge numbers of birds, especially when it is laden with its ripe and highly edible ficus berries.

birds

Below final completion of its pendulous nest which looks more like a junk agglomeration, this male Purple Sunbird male tends to its newly-made nest, stitching in soft fibrous materials and attaching them to the next which hangs from a Wiste…

wildlife · birds

This Bee-eater prefers vertical sand banks for nesting but has settled for this modest mud pile for a semi horizontal nest hole, as it gets ample insect food at our Wilderness Orchard in Delhi.

birds

Spotted by our cameraperson in Odisha, this Rufous Woodpecker (Micropternus brachyurus) sits in the fork of a tree. Rufous woodpeckers interestingly, make their nests within the nests of tree-dwelling ants.

wildlife · birds

Birds take sand baths for multiple reasons. They use dust baths as a regular part of preening. It not only removes excess oil but also gets rid of lice, mites and even dead skin.

birds

Red Whiskered Bulbul (Pycnonotus jocosus) sits on a branch and calls away to others of its kind.

forest · birds

Extremely gregarious and social birds, Jungle Babblers (Argya striata) are always found in a small flock and thus get their name 'Seven Sisters' or even 'Saat Bhai'.

highway · flowers

Sitting on the branches of a flowering Gulmohar tree (Delonix regia), this Rose-ringed Parakeet or Ring-necked Parakeet (Psittacula krameri) couple seems to be looking down at the traffic passing below from its high vantage point.

birds

This male Purple Sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus) prepares its nest for the female to lay her eggs in and rear their chicks.

flowers · birds

While the female Rose-ringed Parakeet inspects a nest hole for possible nesting space in a Gulmohar tree, the male parakeet waits on a branch nearby for the approval of its mate.

birds · wildlife

Urban spaces have a shortage of large trees, especially those than can provide appropriate nest-holes in their trunks.

lake · wildlife

This waterhen comfortably and cautiously pads on to its nest in tall water grasses, within a wetland. She incubates her clutch of pretty pinkish-white speckled eggs.

monsoon · wildlife

In the hollow created by a broken tree trunk, a pair of Magpie Robins have cleverly decided to nest.