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Did you know that Drongo birds provide cover and protection to smaller and milder birds that breed near its own nesting tree? The Grey Drongo is found in the middle and lower hills of the Himalaya.

hills · birds

The Himalayan Woodpecker or Himalayan Pied Woodpecker makes for a pretty sight as it hammers away at branches of trees with its strong beak to look for yummy insects to eat.

hills · wildlife

A Himalayan Tree Pie sits on our old Cypress tree and preens its feathers. Having bathed in our little stream, this Himalayan Tree Pie dries off and preens on a twig nearby.

wildlife · birds

Many songs have been dedicated to the melodious call of the Koel in India. This bird of the Cuckoo family is a brood parasite and lays its eggs in the nests of other birds.

birds · wildlife

The Striated Laughing Thrush is a shy fruit-eating thrush with lovely brown plumage and white stripes. It likes to remain concealed in shrubbery and is ever watchful of its surroundings.

Uttarakhand·forest · birds

A Crested Hawk Eagle is seen around Landour, at our Jabbarkhet wildfilmsindia sanctuary, enjoying the view from a tree-top in our early wintery fores, and surveying its domain, looking for prey.

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Behaving in a surprisingly human like fashion, this White-throated Kingfisher first bobs its head up and down as if it is hiccuping and then yawns like a person out of boredom.

Uttarakhand·birds

A flock of Black Bulbuls, an Ashy Drongo and a Rufous Sibia forage in a huge flowering Himalayan Cherry tree at the wildfilmsindia estate in Jabbarkhet, Uttarakhand. The Black-capped Sibia lets out its familiar trill of 'three cheers'!

hills · wildlife

The Oriental Turtle Dove of Rufous Turtle Dove is a fairly common bird in the Himalayan regions of India and one can even hear the familiar call of the birds often enough.

birds · hills

What a lovely challenging yet cheery call this Laughing Thrush has, as it sits on a branch and establishes its territory, while taking preening breaks in between calling out! With a tone of familiarity, we have nick-named this common and fr…

birds

Behaving in a surprisingly human like fashion, this White-throated Kingfisher first bobs its head up and down as if it is hiccuping and then yawns like a person out of boredom.

wildlife · birds

Fast expanding cities and human habitations have pushed many-a-species to the the brink of extinction.

wildlife · birds

A Hariyal or Yellow-footed Green Pigeon sits on the branch of a Peepul tree and enjoys the warmth of the sun on a winter day.

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The common Bulbul of India is the cheery Red-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer);, but the Red-whiskered is prettier but rarer, with its prominent red and white patches on the cheeks, and the pointed crest atop its head! The Red-vented (seen a…

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

What a lovely energetic sprightly bird the Plumbeous Water Redstart is, as it bobs its tail up and down, sitting by a gurgling clear mountain torrent, with brown rocks and white foamy froth from the fast flowing water...

birds · wildlife

The Red-flanked Bluetail (Tarsiger cyanurus), also known as the Orange-flanked Bush-robin, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old Worl…

birds · wildlife

Female Hornbill vs Myna : A big property dispute occurs in the avian world. Mynas wish to dispossess the Hornbills of their rightful nest hole.

wildlife · birds

With its long tail feathers reaching out of the nest, this male Darzi chidiya settles on to a bed of cotton and fibers between two stitched together leaves, the monsoon humidity outside makes the poor Tailor Bird pant through an open beak.

wildlife · birds

The Tailor Bird completes the nest and then begins to incubate its eggs, after laying them...

birds · wildlife

Jungle Babblers preen each other cutely, pecking each other's faces, behind the ears and removing ticks, lice and other parasites.

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Many call this is a cheel, but it is not an eagle but rather the plebian Pariah Kite of our cities. Looks to many like an Eagle, but this too is an ordinary common urban Pariah Kite, seen in Odisha

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A Racket-tailed Drongo juvenile filmed in Nagaland, India. The chick stays near its nesting site, confident in its familiar surroundings. It has still not developed the full-grown tail feathers that give the bird species its name.

wildlife · birds

A Ladakh grassland harbours this alpine sparrow type bird, or is it a pipit or lark species? Help us identify the same!