birds

birds · lake

Hunched up Pond Heron enjoys winter sunshine on a Sehmal or Silk Cotton tree at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi, preening and looking down to the waters below for potential prey.

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This White-breasted Kingfisher ir a true urban chidiya, and doesn't need to fish, or even eat fish at all. Toads, frogs and insects suffice for it! It is also happy to live in a semi-urban environment in India.

birds · wildlife

With a little reed patch under its tail, this is perhaps the most common and widespread Bulbul in India - The Red-vented Bulbul is a cheery frequently seen garden bird across cities and is often seen in light woodland as well.

hills · birds

Nesting duties of the White-throated Laughing thrush of the Himalaya: Feeding time for yellow gaped babies A White-throated Laughing Thrush spreads her wings wide to protect delicate chicks from summer sun, as she sits in her nest atop her…

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Cute and ruby red bright eyed! A Collared Scops Owl gets rescued after being injured by a larger predator such as a Shikra, in Delhi. IN its down and out position, a group of Jungle Babbler heckle it on the ground.

highway · wildlife

Worst road surface in India? Giant rock-crushing Tata Hitachi crane conquers rocks, forges new roads See how precariously it stands with the drill in the cement road surface! A crane specially designed for breaking rocks is commonly known a…

birds · wildlife

Purple Sunbirds (Cinnyris asiaticus) are tiny little birds seen in the Indian subcontinent. The birds feed primarily on nectar but can also be seen eating small insects.

forest · wildlife

Satpura Tiger Reserve is a habitat of 52 species of Mammals, 31 of Reptiles and 300 species of birds, out of which 14 are endangered. STR also a habitat of arboreal mammals like Flying Squirrel, Indian Giant Squirrel and Leaf nosed bats.

birds · wildlife

Fierce beauty-Crested Eagle sitting on a tree branch unhinged by the torrential rain.

birds · forest

The Collared Pygmy Owlet has a very large range occurring in the Himalayas Source : Wikipedia The tiny Collared Owlet is Asia's smallest owl species: See it hunched up in the winter cold With 'eyes' at the back of its head, this Ullu actual…

birds · hills

Chestnut-bellied Himalayan Rock Thrush male has a rufous chest and cute beady brown eyes with a head of deep azure sky blue. The chestnut-bellied rock thrush (Monticola rufiventris) is a species of bird in the Muscicapidae family.

birds · hills

A melange of Himalayan birds: Himalayan Blue Whistling Thrush or the Whistling School-boy at Latpanchor in West Bengal. Types of Birds during spring time in the lower Darjeeling hills.

birds · hills

Chestnut-bellied Himalayan Rock Thrush female has a banded chest and cute beady brown eyes Opening its beak wide, almost as if it were exercising, this drably-coloured but most elegant female Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush grooms itself and p…

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

A winter migrant down to the middle hills, the Orange-flanked Bush Robin has a shock of electric blue with a small patch of orange under its wings.

wildlife · birds

Cute wide yellow eyed Eurasian Stone Curlews preen their tails with their chicks at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi, in post breeding season mode. They look sleepy in the daytime, being nocturnal birds for the most part.

birds · coastline

In the Sunderbans region sits this lovely global Indian kilikili. Sitting on a wooden stump and hiccuping away, this most colourful Common Eurasian Kingfisher sits on a machhi vigil at Bakkhali beach in West Bengal.

Madhya Pradesh·birds

Crested Serpent Eagle in Maharashtra: Spilornis cheela has impressive concentration as it scouts for prey This Spilornis cheela sits in alert mode along a water body at Panna National Park, awaiting its chance at serpentine or other prey in…

wildlife · birds

Eating black berries from a wild Himalayan shrub, this cute bird with a jaunty forward-facing crest atop its head is the Whiskered Yuhina (Yuhina flavicollis).

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Male Purple Sunbird in non breeding plumage as a black stripe down its live green-yellow throat. Come spring and all these feathers will fall off and be replaced by a brilliant iridescent blue.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

Rd-billed Blu Magpie, Orange-flanked Bush Robin, Green-backed Tit, Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush: Winter birds at wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet Sibia in a water spray, Orange-flanked Bush Robin, Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush: Winter birds at wild…

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

A cute pair of White eye birds (Zesterops palpebrosa) preen each other on our wild orange tree, dig in to the fruit Northern Yellow White eye at Wilderness Orchard This Zesterops palpebrosa on kashmal or Berberis aristata shrub is feeding o…

Rajasthan·wildlife · birds

Bady-beady eyes! Shikra is a small raptor or bird of prey, with light brown bands on its chest - Accipiter badius! Shikra hunts for mice in a Jhalana grassland near Jaipur city: One of our smaller urban birds of prey.

wildlife · birds

Shikra is a small raptor or bird of prey, with light brown bands on its chest - Accipiter badius! The juvenile Shikra almost looks like an adult in size but it still has time to be as efficient a predator as an adult.