monsoon

birds · monsoon

Monsoon bounty from underground! A mouthful of termites... This Myna must have a voracious appetite or i it trying to feed its chicks? Perched on a branch, a Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis) with its beak filled with Flying Termites, the…

birds · monsoon

The herald of Indian monsoons and the spectacular metallic purple sheen of the male Purple Sunbird (Cinnyris asiaticus ) has worn off.

monsoon · birds

Clamator jacobinus - Dubbed by some as the 'Rain Catcher' the Pied Cuckoo Pied Crested Cuckoo or Jacobin Cuckoo is migratory in India and is spotted during the initiation of monsoons.

monsoon · birds

Dubbed by some as the 'Rain Catcher' the Pied Cuckoo, Pied Crested Cuckoo or Jacobin Cuckoo is migratory in India and is spotted during the initiation of monsoons.

river · birds

Help us identify this Bittern that we filmed on a roadside wetland in Uttar Pradesh. This surely is not a or Striated Heron or Little Heron, is it? A Striated Heron (Butorides striata) also known as Little Heron is busy looking for prey in…

wildlife · birds

The Sarus crane is the tallest flying bird in the world standing 152-156 cm tall with a wingspan of 240cm. It has a predominantly grey plumage with a naked red head and upper neck and pale red legs.

wildlife · birds

The Sarus crane is the tallest flying bird in the world standing 152-156 cm tall with a wingspan of 240cm. It has a predominantly grey plumage with a naked red head and upper neck and pale red legs.

wildlife · birds

Hear the lovely kurr-kurr call of the Sarus Crane! The Sarus crane is the tallest flying bird in the world standing 152-156 cm tall with a wingspan of 240cm.

monsoon · wildlife

In the hollow created by a broken tree trunk, a pair of Magpie Robins have cleverly decided to nest.

monsoon · wildlife

The male is a dapper black and white while the female is a dignified grey and white. The two make a great caring couple of parents for their four chick brood hiding in the exposed nest hollow of a guava tree.

monsoon · wildlife

The cricket is even squirming in her beak. Talk of zero food miles! And talk of fresh produce for the mother's babies... In the hollow created by a broken tree trunk, a pair of Magpie Robins have cleverly decided to nest.

wildlife · birds

Common Tailor Bird stitches its nest with elan: India's darzi chidiya also known as Orthotomus sutorius for sutures that it makes.

wildlife · birds

A Darzi chidiya creates sutures to expertly stitch together its leaf nest. Expertly and deftly weaving the cotton fibers it has collected from plants and leaves, this Tailor Bird makes little holes in two Teak tree leaves that it has brough…

wildlife · birds

Settled in comfortably into its little hammock nest created at the fork of two twigs of an Ashoka tree within our building complex, this cute bird incubates her clutch of eggs with confidence and style.

wildlife · birds

Fixing spider's egg sacks and cocoons into its nest, this White-eye settles in to her hammock nest, makes herself cosy and sets about laying her eggs, in a hammock nest made between two twigs, in an Oriole like fashion...

birds · monsoon

A White-throated Laughing Thrush preens in monsoon time at wildfilmsindia Motidhar sanctuary, even as a Rufous or Black-capped Sibia calls out in this clear quiet mountain audioscape, defined only by the calls of cicadas and tits, with a di…

forest · birds

Black Bulbul hides in dark forest canopy shade during overcast monsoon day, after bathing in a forest pool by our stream at Motidhar. It can barely be seen in broad daylight.

monsoon · lake

Monsoon blues is what this Spotted Forktail has, but it remains spunky beside our trout pond, on the prowl for water insects.

monsoon

With the cicadas calling all around, a cheery little Verditer Flycatcher female sits on a monsoon branch, and trills away to glory, with a male close at hand. She preens and cleans her feathers, dampened by the rains...

wildlife · birds

With its long tail feathers reaching out of the nest, this male Darzi chidiya settles on to a bed of cotton and fibers between two stitched together leaves, the monsoon humidity outside makes the poor Tailor Bird pant through an open beak.

wildlife · birds

The Tailor Bird completes the nest and then begins to incubate its eggs, after laying them...

wildlife · birds

White-eye bird at its nest at wildfilmsindia city office in South Delhi - Zesterops palpebrosa.

wildlife · birds

Perfectly camouflaged among the green leaves, this Tailor Bird starts out as a mass of jumbled cotton fiber among the leaves, but soon the form begins to come together and take shape.