birds

wildlife · birds

Mongoose babies hesitatingly approach and then proceed to eat eggs stolen from a bird's nest: Neola is not just a predator but sits at head of food chain Mongoose steals and eats bird eggs on the ground in a nesting scrape in India: Nature…

birds

A female Indian Peafowl or Peahen sits on her clutch of eggs, turns and keeping them moist them during incubation, camouflaged on the ground

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Blackbird gorges on Berberis aristata or Kingod berries in the western Himalaya, spreading seeds for the shrub Grey-winged Blackbird is one of India's finest songsters, even as it silently pecks around for insects A Grey winged Blackbird sc…

Uttarakhand·birds · forest

Grey-winged Blackbird is one of India's finest songsters, even as it silently pecks around for insects A Grey winged Blackbird scrabbles around in the undergrowth at our wildfilmsindia sanctuary at Jabbarkhet, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·birds · forest

The shy skulking yet omnipresent Blue Whistling Thrush in Mussoorie, sort of like the Malabar Whistling Thrush or Whistling Schoolboy.

birds · hills

A small group of White throated Laughing Thrush undertakes a summer afternoon of stream bathing: A cheery hill bird from the Himalaya with an orange rump, at our wildfilmsindia forest reserve in Uttarakhand.

birds · wildlife

What a handsome if plebian bird the Cattle Egret is, in its breeding plumage of rust and orange across its face

wildlife · birds

With its yellow-black tongue protruding from its powerful beak on a hot summer day, the Pariah or Black Kite may be a common Delhi bird but it certainly has regal raptor looks and a presence.

wildlife · birds

Cute as buttons: Quail chicks feed, drink and preen in their heated brooder enclosure, preparing for the world outside

birds · farmland

Note the tiny insect parasites and ecto-parasites sitting on the face of the peahen, as she sits still in a diligent fashion on her clutch of eggs that lie in a little scrape on the ground.

birds · lake

Cuteness: Indian Pond Heron scratches its face cutely, with its long toes and feet, preens neck with beak, at the Wilderness Orchard wetland in New Delhi.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Stubby little dumpy bird with a thick strong yellow beak as it sits on an Oak tree in Landour: Great Barbet Great Hill or Himalayan Barbet gorges on wild Himalayan pear, stuffs himself and then cannot move as its so full!

wildlife · birds

The cutest large bulgy yellow eyes you ever saw on a bird! Eurasian Stone Curlew is a nocturnal bird so its eyes are "All the better to see you with!" Curlew mum with grown-up chick! What a gentle wonderful old world shy creature is the Eur…

farmland · wildlife

Curlew mum with grown-up chick! What a gentle wonderful old world shy creature is the Eurasian Stone Curlew as seen at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi Party time for birds that nest on the ground, and have to fend off potential predators.

wildlife · birds

Jal Murghi or White-breasted Waterhen are forced to live their lives in dirty drain water of what was once a lovely Aravalli stream.

wildlife · birds

Macaques sit in the grass and groom and de-tick each other, feed on grass shoots and search for bird eggs to eat.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

Scaly Thrush is a shy skulking ground bird at our wildfimsindia Jabbarkhet forests, along with a chirpy Green-backed Tit, Red-headed Tit and a female Orange-flanked Bush Robin.

birds · monsoon

A first year male not-fully-grown peacock nods off in the summer heat and sunshine, nodding its head, shutting its eye-lids and literally dropping asleep! Peacocks displaying in the pre-monsoon season at the Delhi Indian Peafowl sanctuary o…

wildlife · birds

Oriental White-eye coupld (Zesterops palpebrosa) nesting in a mulberry tree at the Wilderness Orchard forest in New Delhi. The female joyously puts together its hammock nest in the outer branches of a shehtoot tree.

wildlife · birds

Cutest little new-born Quail chicks huddle together and inter-twine their necks for warmth under their brooder lamp

wildlife · birds

Green-backed Tit and Oriental White Eye birds come to our garden tap for a summer-time drink

birds

Eat and poop - That is the summer-time Ficus fruiting season routine for the arboreal barbets of Delhi city! Green Barbet hogs on Ficus berries: Peepal ka phal for the dumpy little Barbets of Delhi

birds

Excited and chirrupy, an exuberant White-throated Laughing Thrush group gaggle takes place on the ground, as the thrushes inspect the hillside and pick up bits of edibles from the grass.