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farmland · industry

Is Jatropha not the be-all end-all bio-fuel solution it was cracked up to be? When jatropha seeds are crushed, the resulting jatropha oil can be processed to produce a high-quality biofuel or biodiesel that can be used in a standard diesel…

industry · river

Brick kiln workers at a brick manufacturing unit in Uttar Pradesh. The workers use wheel barrows to move bricks that have come out of the foundry with the chimney. They organize the brown baked bricks into neat and organized rows.

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An in site agricultural field unit for making jaggery runs in the fields in this rural UP setting. The workers stir the sugarcane juice in a massive ground karhai, and create the jaggery which turns golden yellow in colour.

Madhya Pradesh·birds · forest

Brown fish owl is a widespread resident in the Indian Subcontinent. ID Features : It has dull brown upperparts, fine dark brown streaking on crown, mantle and scapulars, fine streaking on dull buff underparts (with close cross barring) and…

wildlife · birds

Asian Openbill is a small stork with conspicuous gap in its bill, allowing the bird to catch its preferred food, the freshwater snails. Adult has white plumage in breeding season, and pale grey for rest of the year.

wildlife · birds

The common buzzard, a bird of prey whose range covers most of Europe and extends into Asia. Over much of its range, it is resident year-round, but birds from the colder parts of the northern hemisphere typically migrate south for the northe…

flowers · birds

The Purple-rumped Sunbirds (Leptocoma zeylonica) - also known as Small Sunbirds, in reference to their size - are nectar-eating sunbirds that are endemic to the Indian Subcontinent.

Haryana·wildlife · birds

Beautiful white domestic ducks stays in the group at a farm in Gurgaon. White ducks are preening their white feathers and enjoys their green environment. Preening is a bird's way of grooming its feathers to keep them in the best condition.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

The piercing whistles of the Mountain Hawk Eagle are a familiar and inspiring reminder of the freedom and wilderness of the lower and middle Himalaya.

wildlife · birds

The Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio), also known as the African Purple Swamphen, Purple Moorhen, Purple Gallinule or Purple Coot, is a large bird in the family Rallidae (rails).

farmland · lake

A relatively small stork species with a greyish to the white body and black wings and tail with a hint of gloss. The Asian Openbill gets its name from a distinctive gap in the dull greyish yellow bill. Note the pinkish legs.

wildlife · birds

Indian Purple Moorhen grazes through a field in India in search of food. This grey headed purple bird flaps its tail feathers while it keeps an eye out for food in the marshy lands and swamps as this is the perfect environment for a domesti…

farmland · wildlife

A King Vulture struts around in a grassland with a large animal bone in its beak. The Red-headed or King Vulture is a stately bird that was formerly widespread in India and south-eastern Asia, but after massive decline probably due to the v…

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A large wader with a white body and bare black head and neck. Males and females look similar and both have greyish tail feathers.

farmland · desert

The Indian Robin - Saxicloides fulicata - is a bird of open desert-land, arid fields, gardens and forest-field interfaces. The female is brown in colour while the male is black with a hint of red under the tail.

farmland · livestock

A flock of Cattle Egrets (Bubulcus ibis) forages for food in a newly tilled farm near a sugarcane field in Uttar Pradesh.

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A flock of Black-headed Ibis ( Threskiornis melanocephalus) foraging for food in the dry grasslands inside Keoladeo National Park in Rajasthan.

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Grooming activity among Ibis folk! Watch them probe their wing feathers and straighten the barbs and barbules, and also clean out parasites.

birds · farmland

A Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea) stands stock-still inside the water looking for fish. It's chest feathers delicately ride the wind. Note the reflection of the bird on the surface of the still waters. It is grooming itself with its beak.

birds · wildlife

Hear the bird calls of Delhi from early spring-time! The late spring to monsoon and the Wilderness Orchard in Chattarpur is alive with flowers and the birds in mating season.

wildlife · birds

An ambiance of busy bird calls in the breeding season at Wilderness Orchard, New Delhi. A pair of Oriental White eye can be spotted bear a water hole. These birds are common in urban areas and open shrublands.

birds · farmland

A kingfisher that dwells on trees and are common near water bodies and even dry agricultural fields, a pair of White-throated Kingfisher are filmed perching on dry tree stumps at our Wilderness Orchard.

flowers · farmland

Indulge in this refreshing sight of a pair of Rose-ringed Parakeet walking among bright yellow sunflowers at our Wilderness Orchard.