hills

hills · snow

In cold late winter rain, this rare male Koklass Pheasant has found itself this overhang with moss, where he chooses to hide. But the location is not very effective, and the feathers of the bird get wet.

birds · hills

Like the Seven Sisters or Sat bhai (Jungle Babblers) of the plains, the White-throated Laughing Thrush is the hill equivalent of the ch4ery babbler.

Uttarakhand·hills

A Green-backed Tit eats a butterfly on a Himalayan wild pear tree, at the wildfilmsindia sanctuary at Jabbarkhet, Uttarakhand. After eating the thorax, it drops the wings and lets them float to the ground.

birds · hills

The bakain tree is common across India and even climbs into the Himalayan foothills. Black Bulbuls are mountain birds but the habitat of the two does briefly cross in the lower Himalaya and then the Black Bulbul partakes of the berries of t…

wildlife · forest

The smartly attired black eye striped Dark Gray Bush Chat sits on a tiny twig and trills, while flicking up its tail with each trill.

Uttarakhand·hills · birds

A Himalayan Scaly-bellied Green Woodpecker peeks out of its nest-hole in a tree hollow above the valley of Nainital, before proceeding to leave altogether. It's red patch on the top of the head is prominent.

river · hills

The brave Brown Dipper lives life on the edge, living out of fast-flowing Himalayan streams, dipping into and out of the water, to catch insects inside the water.

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A lone Himalayan Griffon Vulture on a conifer tree top scouting for potential scavenging areas. Whitish and brown in contrast with the green needles and cones of the conifer tree.

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Colourful passerine birds on the way to Bandarpunch in Garhwal Himalaya towards Chhaian Gad Valley in early winter.

birds · hills

Birds of Middle Hills in autumn: Minivet, Common or Mountain Hawk Cuckoo or Kaphal Pako bird hiding secretively in an Oak tree, Jay, Black-capped or Rufous Sibia, Black-crowned Jay, Streaked Laughing Thrush, Grey Tit, White-eye, Bulbul, Fly…

hills · birds

The fabulous Hill Barbet or Great Himalayan Barbet gets its name mewli or piao from this far reaching call which is heard far and wide in the mountains of the Western Himalaya.

birds · hills

A couple of Slaty-headed Parakeets (Psittacula himalayana) are filmed on a coniferous Cedrus deodara Himalayan Cedar tree in Uttarakhand. A silhouette of the bird trying to eat fresh cedar cone nuts straight from the tree.

Uttarakhand·birds · hills

Sporting a very prominent mohawk and the white 'Cheeks', Himalayan Bulbuls (Pycnonotus leucogenys) are filmed on various trees in our Wilderness Orchard and sanctuary in Landour-Jabbarkhet, Uttarakhand.

birds · hills

In the backdrop of low bird calls, a Himalayan or Darjeeling Pied Woodpecker or Dendrocopos himalayensis is seen pecking on the dry wood of a barren tree in the cold winter in Uttarakhand.

hills · forest

It's a lucky day for this intelligent and opportunistic Himalayan Jungle Crow as it chances upon an unlucky rat. The Kauwa can be seen feasting on the already half torn rat.

Uttarakhand·hills · wildlife

A Streaked Laughing Thrush young one on a log. Cicadas call as we climb around Landour, en route the Chhaiyan Bamak valley of Garhwal, towards the peak of Bandarpunch or White Peak.

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An Impeyan Pheasant, Danphe or Monal Pheasant male sits on an Oak tree, while the female, with her delicate blue eye lappet patch, is on the ground, and looks to fly up to the tree to join her mate.

hills · village

Like the vultures in Mowgli and the Jungle Book of Kipling (Now what are we going to do?), these Griffons fight and spread their wings as a threat and to show dominance at the kill of a leopard around Agoda village in Garhwal, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills

A Himalayan Griffon Vulture flies overhead at Jabbarkhet, searching from the skies for carrion on the ground, whence it will descend and start to feed.

Uttarakhand·hills

A Himalayan Griffon Vulture flies overhead at Jabbarkhet, with Mussoorie and her hills in the backdrop, searching from the skies for carrion on the ground, whence it will descend and start to feed.

hills · wildlife

The circle of life! Griffons derive their sustenance from this animal that has been killed by a leopard, and their lives get sustained by this remainder...

Uttarakhand·forest · hills

That certainly looks like a Kestral, a small but fast raptor that is agile on the wing and sharp of eye... Seen sitting on a deodar or Himalayan Cedar dry branch, with its brown banded chest prominently displayed.

hills · wildlife

A bevy of Himalayan Jungle Crows compete with Griffon Vultures for the remains of a cow booked by a leopard.