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This chick is all red inside of its mouth, and all mouth in general! The red gape pops up from under the mother House Crow as it clamours for food, looking rather comical.

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Chicks struggle for their parents' attention, squawking and opening their beaks even as their eyes are closed and they are essentially blind to the world.

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Chicks struggle for their parents' attention, squawking and opening their beaks even as their eyes are closed and they are essentially blind to the world. A Kauwa or Corvus splendens - the House Crow of India.

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Bare unprotected chicks with no feathers and their eyes shut, exposed to the world in a flimsy nest high above traffic. And yet they will survive and their numbers will grow in this world...

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A male House Crow stomps around on its nesting branch, as seen in slow motion, along with its surviving grown-up chick along the Ring Road in New Delhi.

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This poor pair of House Crows has been duped by a Koel who has landed an egg into it's nest, in a classical example of brood parasitism. They cannot tell the difference between their own and the cuckoo's eggs.

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The chicks are now much larger, and their orange gapes have turned more burgundy-red in colour.

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As the traffic flows below, this Crow sits with steadfast dedication, protecting its chicks from the rain.

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The chicks are almost fully-grown and they sit at the edge of the nest, making perfunctory attempts at flight, and then getting nervous and falling back into the nest.

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All your see are black blobs with red open gapes, in slow motion. The father House Crow digs his huge beak deep into throat of one chick and regurgitates food into it, to feed them.

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Non-stop flow of traffic in the hot afternoons in Delhi summers but surprisingly a lot of bords are spotted on the tall trees. Yes, birds are spotted in the heart of the city.

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Looks like this Brown-headed Barbet is not enjoying the summer heat in Delhi. Perching restlessly on a tree near a traffic intersection, the bird is filmed shifting from one place to the other with its beak wide open.

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Ready to fledge and abandon their nest, these crow chicks are fully grown, and can barely fit into their earlier digs. They flap their wings in eager anticipation of their first flight and journey into the world.

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Crows do indeed find vantage points and high-up locations to create their nests, and breed. Look at this Kauza ka ghonsla high up above the super busy Ring Road in New Delhi. It is a clear look-out point.

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A juvenile bachha kauwa dozes off as it leaves its nest and roosts on a branch of the same shehtoot or mulbery tree.

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The chicks are almost fully-grown and they sit at the edge of the nest, making perfunctory attempts at stretching and opening their wings and attempting flight, and then getting nervous and falling back into the nest.

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When a Five-striped Palm Squirrel or gilheri gets run over by a car in New Delhi, the House Crows or kauwas move in to recycle and reuse! They, in turn, have to be cautious to not get run over by yet another car...

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See the kauwa fight over a gilheri! When a Five-striped Palm Squirrel or gilheri gets run over by a car in New Delhi, the House Crows or kauwas move in to recycle and reuse! They, in turn, have to be cautious to not get run over by yet anot…

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A couple of Yellow-footed Green Pigeon sits on a Banyan tree branch outside our office complex. The rush of fruits on the Banyan Tree after the monsoon rains must have attracted these green pigeons.

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Rose-ringed Parakeets are common in urban trees and are often mistaken for parrots. The birds are quite adapted to the urban environment. A male is seen sitting on the branch under the shade of leaf foliage.

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The calls of a flock of noisy Mynas are downed in the traffic rush at a traffic point in Moti Bagh, South Delhi. The Mynas basking in the tops and exposed parts of trees.

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The Pied Mynas seem to be oblivious of the maddening honking and the myna calls during sunset.

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On a rainy monsoony day in New Delhi city, a crow brood is raised in a nest high above the Ring Road.