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hills · river

Filmed by Chewang Bonpo, this is the rare Bengal Florican as seen in the Mishmi hills of Arunachal Pradesh in India.

hills · forest

The hooded pitta (Pitta sordida) is a passerine bird. It is common in eastern and southeastern Asia and maritime Southeast Asia, where it lives in different types of forests as well as on plantations and other cultivated areas.

wildlife · birds

The Ibisbill is a strange and unique wader of wide high-altitude Himalayan and Tibetan Plateau valleys with flat stony rivers. Its range extends across central Asia from Kazakhstan to nw. China and south to nw. India.

forest · hills

The little forktail (Enicurus scouleri) is a species of bird in the family Muscicapidae. It is found in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Kazakhstan, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan, Tajikistan, and Vietnam.

hills · forest

The grey treepie, also known as the Himalayan treepie, (Dendrocitta formosae) is an Asian treepie, a medium-sized and long-tailed member of the crow family.

hills · wildlife

Black-capped or Rufous Sibia is a common and melodious Himalayan bird. The rufous sibia (Heterophasia capistrata) is a species of bird in the Leiothrichidae family. It feeds on berries and insects.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

A male Kaleej pecks at the neck of a female Kaleej Pheasant at Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand, India.

birds · hills

Beautiful Himalayan birds: Black-capped or Rufous Sibia, Himalayan Pied Woodpecker, Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush, Verditer Flycatcher, female Chestnut-bellied Rock Thrush and the couple together.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Himalayan Whistling Thrush or the Blue Whistling Thrush, also known as the Whistling schoolboy! The bird fans its tail out when it is about to fly, and is known as Kalchure in Nepali.

Himachal Pradesh·hills

What is that brown bird - a Turtle Dove of sorts, perhaps? It is merrily mixing with these high altitude versions of Columba livia, a Himalayan variety, if you will.

wildlife · birds

A pair of Brown Dipper birds in spring. The male courts the female and tries to feed here even as they battle the cold blue waters of the Jalandhri Garh torrent above Harsil in the high Himalaya.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · snow

A stunning view of a covey of Himalayan Snow Partridge, with clear vocalization. These were filmed around the Kedarnath Wildlife Sanctuary's 's upper reaches near the Chaukhamba massif of peaks in the Uttarakhand Himalaya, at the beginning…

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A Kestrel hovers mid-air and then sits down on a rocky ledge, eyeing a rodent quary on the ground, while a Himalayan Griffon Vulture soars high over-head.

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

While we were camped out in the lower Himalaya, in search of the thought-to-be-extinct Mountain Quail, we came across this party of White-throated Laughing Thrush birds looking for insects in the under-storey of the forest at the Wilderness…

hills · wildlife

A stunning shot of a pair of Himalayan Snowcock flying off! Those are not Tibetan Snowcock, surely...

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

The Himalayan Woodpecker (Dendrocopos himalayensis) or Himalayan Pied Woodpecker is a species of bird in the Picidae family.

birds · hills

The colourful Great barbet bird in the himalaya forest of Landour in Uttarakhand. The great barbet (Psilopogon virens) belongs to the family of Asian barbets, Megalaimidae.

hills · wildlife

The White-capped Water-redstart is the only member of genus Chaimarrornis, representative of the Himalayan stream avifauna. Both sexes are similar, but the male may have slightly larger white head patch.

Uttarakhand·hills

Walking down the cemetery road in Landour, on the north face, we came across this Tree Creeper busily making its way up a cracked wall, searching for insects and grubs.

river · birds

A White-browed Fantail Flycatcher sits on the banks of the Tirthan river in Kinnaur, while a Himalayan Pied Kingfisher sits on a cable awaiting a quarry in the waters below.

birds · hills

Examine the diet of the cute little Ultramarine or White-browed Blue Flycatcher, as the mother and father bring food to their young ones. This includes a gloworn or bioluminescent insect, in one case.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Male and female Ultramarines fly back and forth to their nest hole in a Landour Rhododendron tree, ferrying food for their chicks. See their aerial pirouettes in slow motion.

hills · wildlife

The sudden excitement of this swallow brood when a parent brings in food is both cute and comical.