flowers

birds · flowers

The beautiful iridescent shiny purple-black Purple Sunbird or Nectarania asiatica is a common garden and city bird in north India.

flowers · birds

A Rose-ringed Parakeet eats flowers of Red Silk cotton tree at our Wilderness Orchard in Delhi. Bombax ceiba, like other trees of the genus Bombax, is commonly known as cotton tree.

birds · flowers

A Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis) sits on the top of a mango tree, amid mango flower. Meanwhile, a pair of Rose-ringed Parakeets see pre-mating season action.

birds · wildlife

In spring, hordes of Rosy Pastors or Starling descend upon Delhi and other northern stops, on their way back up north, to their breeding grounds, after wintering across the plains of India.

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.

birds · wildlife

See a Long-tailed Shrike (lahtora or Butcher bird), a Bush Lark, Tree Pie (Dendrocitta vagabunda), a Purple Sunbird, a White-breasted Kingfisher (kili kili), Blossom-headed Parakeet or Plum-headed Parakeet (tota), Yellow-legged Green Pigeon…

hills · flowers

That lovely call is that of a Lesser Scaly-bellied Green Woodpecker as it approaches our plum tree as it flowers, even as a Stripe-throated or Whiskered Yuhina looks around with great circumspection.

birds · flowers

A Rose-ringed parakeet looks around from the top of a tree while a cute green pigeon feasts from some berries.

birds · flowers

Green barbet chick hides among bright red flowers from which it drinks water. The Lineated Barbet (Megalaima lineata) is a large barbet found in the northern parts of the Indian Subcontinent, along the southern foothills of the Himalayas an…

flowers · birds

Sat bhai, Seven Sisters or the Jungle Babbler, the Common Myna, Green Bee-eater, Pied Myna, Purple Sunbird, Green Barbet, a Five-striped Palm Squirrel and a Rose-ringed Parakeet - all visitors to partake in the feast of waxy flower petals a…

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Even as the Indian summer heat peaks in mid-May, reaching 50 degrees Celcius or more in the open sun, this clutch of eggs was laid by a Red-wattled Lapwing, a species of the plover family, out in the open, on the ground.

flowers · birds

A White-browed Fantail Flycatcher piroeuttes about at the edge of a forest, on a garden fence. It periodically fans open its tail - a habit that gives it its name. Also see a Grey Tit (Parus spp.) and a Magpie Robin in Karnataka.

Uttarakhand·flowers · birds

0:10 - Black Crowned Jay 0:17 - Rhododendron arboreum, the tree rhododendron, also known as Burans or Laligurans or simply Gurans in Nepal, is an evergreen shrub or small tree with a showy display of bright red flowers.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

The Crested Hawk-eagle or Changeable Hawk-eagle (Nisaetus cirrhatus), is a bird of prey of the family Accipitridae.

birds · hills

Unlike in the west and in garden cherries, the wild Himalayan cherry tree flowers in late autumn and early winter.

flowers

This Girgit starts huffing and puffing with exhaustion after energetically stomping and patting down a mound with its chin and legs.

birds · flowers

The pilkhan tree has berries of Ficus growing on its twigs and stems. Birds love the wild Ficus figs! The Blossom-headed Parakeet (Psittacula roseata) is a parrot which is a resident breeder in northeast India eastwards into Southeast Asia.…

Rajasthan·flowers · forest

A crimson sun with a silhouette of rock formations in Jawai, Rajasthan. A male peafowl tries to attract the peahens with his colourful display of tail feathers.

flowers · birds

Inside the Nehru Park in spring colourful flowers are in full bloom. A pair of Rose-ringed Parakeets munch on the flower buds among the dahlias and petunias. With cheerful bird calls, the park is in full bloom, fresh and liberated.

flowers · birds

The beautiful Large Green Barbet and the invariably present Rose-ringed Parakeets are common visitors to Sehmal or Silk Cotton trees. The Barbet is more delicate but the Parakeets tear into and destroy the flowers.

birds · flowers

Hear the lovely call of the Large Green Barbet - "Kutroo, kutroo, kutroo!" Feeding on the waxy blooms of the Sehmal tree, consuming its pollen and insects drawn to the flowers, it cranes its neck out in a strange little fashion, and assumes…

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In a New Delhi garden, the flowers of Hamelia patens attract a pair of Purple Sunbirds or Nectarania asiatica.

birds · wildlife

Pycnonotus cafer or the Red-vented Bulbul is a sprightly resident of city gardens in India. Coming up next is the Ashy Wren Warbler or Ashy Prinia. Spring brings new beginnings and fresh blossoms for this common passerine bird in India.