birds

desert · wildlife

Teetar playing in the mud. The Francolinus pondicerianus or Grey Partridge is India's favourite game bird, and a sporting arid resident of desert like dry regions.

flowers · birds

This lovely species of foreign kachnar sports edible flowers and is currently blooming fabulously at the wildfilmsindia orchard in Delhi.

Uttarakhand·river · birds

Safed topi wali chidiya: White-capped Redstart: Cute little bird plays in its freezing cold winter-time water habitat near our wildfilmsindia stream around Mussoorie.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

Plumbeous Redstart by our Bindal stream, Orange-flanked Bush Robin on its wintr migratory visit to Mussoorie, and a White-crested Laughing Thrush eating kaitha wild pear fruit : Three fun birds from the wildfilmsindia bird sanctuary around…

Uttarakhand·river · hills

It is indeed an unusual sight to see a Himalayan Pied or Darjeeling Woodpecker digging away at decaying wood at the base of a tree trunk, next to flowing water in a stream at our wildfimsindia stream valley near Landour in Mussoorie.

birds

While the normal diet of a Scaly-bellied Woodpecker consists o larvae, insects and tree sap, this fellow digs fruit as much as it digs into wood in search of insects! It bites into kaitha of wild Himalayan pear fruit in the early winter se…

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

A wild Cherry tree or Padum in full bloom in early winter around Mussoorie is a club-house for local birds and butterflies feasting on the nectar for the butterflies and the insects that comes to the flowers, for the birds.

hills · birds

The Eurasian Jay (Himalayan) Red-crowned Jay - Garrulus glandarius has a lovely blue and black speckled wing patch. Hear the lovely mountain forest cacophony of bird calls from all directions.

Uttarakhand·birds

With a Woodpecker calling in the background audio, this Green-backed Tit is a cheery little energetic one, ever chirruping and twisting from left to right, nervous yet cute, as seen at the wildfilmsindia bird sanctuary in the Uttarakhand Hi…

birds · highway

A Crimson-breasted Barbet or Coppersmith Barbet has created this round One-rupee coin sized nest-hole to access its nest within the trunk of a bakain tree.

flowers · birds

Most common parrot family member in India is the Rose-ringed Parakeet: Tota has excellent camouflage

birds · wildlife

A Crimson-breasted Barbet or Coppersmith Barbet has created this round One-rupee coin sized nest-hole to access its nest within the trunk of a bakain tree.

birds · wildlife

This Coppersmith Bird or Crimson-breasted Barbet bird can hang on to a branch upside down as it has zygodactylic feet, or two claws in front and two behind. This allows it to exert pressure and develop a hold onto any rough surface.

wildlife · birds

Hanle Monastery, marshes of Hanle are Black-necked Crane habitat, in Ladakh L blue skies white cotton clouds

Uttarakhand·hills · birds

The toot toot-toot toot is the four note call of the Collard Pygmy Owlet, with the warble whistle of the Common Hill Partridge in the background audio, on a bright autumn morning at our wildfilmsindia bird sanctuary in the western Himalaya,…

forest · birds

It's red jaunty crest aflame and bouncing back and forth as the bird pecks at the trunk, this Himalayan Pied Woodpecker or Katphora pecks away at mossy trunk of Oak tre at wildfilmsindia wildlife reserve in Uttarakhand.

music · school

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wildlife · birds

After a heavy monsoon shower, this Papiha dries its wings in the wan sunlight, spreading out its feathers to maximize the drying.

birds

Rose-ringed Parakeet on a Bakain or Persian Lilac tree in Delhi. The common Tota uses its beak as a third leg, to perambulate among branches, especially in this windy monsoon weather.

birds · forest

A preening Hawk Eagle. See the strong legs with barred feathering plumage, and the long tail feathers and outer tail retrices, as it preens itself of mites and parasites on a wet monsoon day, sitting first on an Oak or Banj and later on on…

highway · wildlife

NDMC truck with in-built crane and platform as seen in Sarojini Nagar, used for cutting tree branches and replacing light bulbs, as used by the New Delhi Municipal Committee.

birds · wildlife

A pair of Common Myna birds shelter in a Sarojini Nagar tree's nest hole, even outside of their breeding season.

Uttarakhand·forest · birds

A Crested Hawk Eagle seen at the wildfilmsindia forests in Mussoorie - see nictitating membrane action. Notes its haunty preky crest atop the head, and the sharp yellow eye.