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Tepsiphone paradisi or the Paradise Flycatcher One of the flycatcher pairs has succeeded in bringing up their young. They will soon be ready to leave their nest. The four chicks barely fit in any longer.

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The Hoopoe is a colourful bird that is found across Afro-Eurasia, notable for its distinctive 'crown' of feathers. It is the only extant species in the family Upupidae.

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Mature male Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi) incubating eggs on the nest! One also sees the female which is reddish-brown in colour and lacks the long streaming tail feathers of the white male.

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Orange-headed Ground Thrush (Zoothera citrina) bathing in a Shivalik sub-Himalayan stream, in the hot summer months...

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Red-wattled Lapwing (Vanellus indicus) at its nest...perhaps approaching its clutch of eggs! Red-wattled Lapwing or titeeri (Vanellus indicus) is a very common breeding resident in Haryana and indeed across the plains of India.

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Black Drongo (Dicrurus macrorhynchos) at its nest...

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White-eye (Zesterops palpebrosa) at its nest! "The white-eyes are small passerine birds native to tropical, subtropical and temperate Sub-Saharan Africa, southern and eastern Asia, and Australasia.

wildlife · crafts

At the end of the video, a female Indian Robin (Saxicloides fulicata) gingerly enters its nest hole in a mud bank, to incubate its eggs.

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Purple Sunbird at its nest... The nest is a pendulous pounch with a sideways entrance and is comprised of old spiders' egg sacs, bits of twigs, dried leaves and junk of assorted varieties! The Purple Sunbird (Cinnyris or Nectarania asiaticu…

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Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) is a tall bird with a large heavy yellow beak and an orange/red head. It is white in color with black markings and delicate pink on the lower back and has pink legs.

wildlife · birds

Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) is a tall bird with a large heavy yellow beak and an orange/red head. It is white in color with black markings and delicate pink on the lower back and has pink legs.

Haryana·wildlife · birds

A female Indian peafowl or peahen incubating her clutch of large off-white eggs in the underbrush of an unoccupied house, under a shrub in Sector 17B, Gurgaon, Haryana, India.

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A Bulbul feeding its chicks in New Delhi city! The Red-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer) is a member of the bulbul family of passerine birds.

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The hoopoe is a colourful medium sized bird. It's size is about 30 cm and it has a long, slender and gently curved bill. The diet of the Hoopoe is mostly composed of insects, although small reptiles and frogs are often included.

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Barbets nested in this Gul Mohor tree trunk in the middle of Hauz Khas, New Delhi, until one day, in a monsoon storm, the main trunk of the Gulmohor tree snapped in half.

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White-eye (Zesterops palpebrosa) and Purple Sunbird (Nectarania asiatica) at their nests! Also, Baya Weaver Bird at theirs nesting colony, Red-wattled Lapwing and other birds nidificating too! An intimate look at the rather distinct identif…

wildlife · forest

A slug makes it way across the forest floor, while a tortoise plonks into a stream below and clambers across into the meadow, a pair of Goral (a species of wild goat found in the Himalaya) spar on the cliffs above while a bunch of langur ga…

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Paradise Flycatcher pair at their nest on a jackfruit or kathal tree in the Shivalik range, India. The father tries to stuff in a over-sized insect into one chick's beak but it simply can't go down the tiny gullet of the new-born.

wildlife · birds

Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) is a tall bird with a large heavy yellow beak and an orange/red head. It is white in color with black markings and delicate pink on the lower back and has pink legs.

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A pair of Paradise Flycatcher at their nest trying to feed their new born babies in the Shivalik range, India. The Asian Paradise-flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi) is a medium-sized passerine bird native to Asia.

wildlife · birds

Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) is a tall bird with a large heavy yellow beak and an orange/red head. It is white in color with black markings and delicate pink on the lower back and has pink legs.

wildlife · birds

Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) is a tall bird with a large heavy yellow beak and an orange/red head. It is white in color with black markings and delicate pink on the lower back and has pink legs.

wildlife · birds

Painted Stork (Mycteria leucocephala) is a tall bird with a large heavy yellow beak and an orange/red head. It is white in color with black markings and delicate pink on the lower back and has pink legs.