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wildlife · birds

Blue Rock Pigeons are survivors and do surprisingly well in urban areas. They do so well indeed that they have even become pests for some and people need to put metal spikes to prevent these birds from constantly nesting and spreading dropp…

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A Grey Hornbill female is weak and thin, and struggles to release herself from nest-hole after one month of incarceration. After hours of struggle, she gives up to catch her breath and rest, and withdraws back into the nest hole.

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Black-rumped Flameback Woodpecker at its nest on the trunk of a Silver Oak Tree puts the final touches to its home.

wildlife · birds

A Darzi Chidiya gives finishing touches to her funnel shaped nest, put together by complicatedly stitching together sutures between two teak tree leaves, using cotton like fibers.

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Red-whiskered Bulbul keeps trying to adjust its body to get more comfortable in its tiny nest as it sits on its clutch of eggs to incubate them. Note the red rump feathers under the tail! And the lovely red patch of feathers on the cheek...

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Red, orange, white, black and brown...if you look carefully, you see what a colourful bird a Red-whiskered Bulbul really is.

wildlife · birds

We spotted this Spotted Munia in our Delhi garden one monsoon day this week, as a surprise. They don't normally venture our way, but the monsoon weather and tall grasses have undoubtedly made it attractive for them to visit us now...

wildlife · birds

Common Tailor Bird stitches its nest with elan: India's darzi chidiya also known as Orthotomus sutorius for sutures that it makes.

wildlife · birds

A Darzi chidiya creates sutures to expertly stitch together its leaf nest. Expertly and deftly weaving the cotton fibers it has collected from plants and leaves, this Tailor Bird makes little holes in two Teak tree leaves that it has brough…

birds · wildlife

What a lovely trilling call created with the beak opened and pointed upwards! The lovely crimson-red feathers of the crest show up in rich tones in this video! Lovely trill of a Golden-backed Flameback Woodpecker - hear it call out aloud fr…

wildlife · birds

Settled in comfortably into its little hammock nest created at the fork of two twigs of an Ashoka tree within our building complex, this cute bird incubates her clutch of eggs with confidence and style.

birds · wildlife

This Red-vented Bulbul and White-eye are almost keeling over in their hunt for black ripe Lantana berries inside a shrub at the Wilderness Orchard! It's truly party time when the berries ripen.

West Bengal·birds · flowers

What sharp black on red colour contrast, as a range of Himalayan birds feast on Rhododendron flower nectar and petals.

wildlife · birds

With one chick just having got out of its egg, and another chick two days old, this mother Lapwing is in panic! Her third egg is just not hatching and she cannot divert attention from the two roving chicks to permanently sit on the lone egg…

wildlife · birds

Fixing spider's egg sacks and cocoons into its nest, this White-eye settles in to her hammock nest, makes herself cosy and sets about laying her eggs, in a hammock nest made between two twigs, in an Oriole like fashion...

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

A Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher preens and scouts out for insects from a bare twig, at the wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet wildlife sanctuary and botanical gardens.

birds · wildlife

Making frequent sallies from its perch, this Flycatcher then returns each time to the same twig.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Seen at Jabbarkhet, the Yellow-naped Woodpecker is rarely seen around Landour Mussoorie - this is one of those unusual sightings on an Oak or Quercus incana tree (baanj), around the Wilderness Orchard and botanical gardens.

hills · wildlife

Having bathed in our little stream, this Himalayan Tree Pie dries off and preens on a twig nearby.

birds · monsoon

A White-throated Laughing Thrush preens in monsoon time at wildfilmsindia Motidhar sanctuary, even as a Rufous or Black-capped Sibia calls out in this clear quiet mountain audioscape, defined only by the calls of cicadas and tits, with a di…

forest · birds

Black Bulbul hides in dark forest canopy shade during overcast monsoon day, after bathing in a forest pool by our stream at Motidhar. It can barely be seen in broad daylight.

Uttarakhand·hills · birds

A pair of perky cheery White-cheeked Bulbuls sit atop a shrub and call out and survey their domain, at the wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet wildlife sanctuary.

wildlife · birds

Hear the vocalization of the Broadbill in this video! What a unusual combination of bright green and bright yellow? For a bird that needs to be camouflaged in low foothill and low Himalayan forests, that seems like an unlikely combination o…