wildlife

wildlife · birds

Shikra is a smart slaty grey raptor bird of prey and avian predator with beady ruby red eyes, as seen here at the Wilderness Orchard forest in New Delhi.

wildlife · birds

Spotted or Scaly-breasted Munia (a Finch family bird?) is a cute little grassland and open spaces bird, now banned to be kept as a cage bird, but seen here in the wild at the Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi city.

wildlife · snow

Chukor Partridge and Pied Magpies call close at hand while the huffing of the cameraman gets caught in the camera's audio track. A Snow Leopard roams the treacherous craggy cliffs in high altitude desert of Ladakh, India.

wildlife · birds

Crow and Magpie family bird the Rufous or Common Tree Pie croaks out its call while sitting on a Neem tree in Delhi, at the Wilderness Orchard. Meanwhile, a Tailor Bird investigates insectds while sitting on a lemon shrub.

Rajasthan·wildlife

A small pack of jackals rubs their backs on the ground, dog style, and hang around together under the shade of trees. Jackal is a smaller predactor cum scavenger at Ranthambhor, far lower in pecking order than the Tiger.

Ranthambore, Rajasthan·wildlife

Let sleeping tigers lie! A napping tiger at Ranthambhor National Park, slumbering in the laziness-inducing summer heat of Rajasthan, India's desert state.

wildlife · birds

A White-eye bird visits our peach blossoms at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi, for insects and nectar - a double meal for it, all the while serving pollination duty! White-eye has the cutest ring of white around its eyes, flits from branch…

wildlife · forest

Gibbon Sanctuary Aerial view of agriculture and thick forest interface from Hollongapar, Assam, with a railway track running through the forest, with a wildlife corridor running alongside it.

wildlife · railway

An Elephant Corridor board next to a Railway Track that cuts through it in Assam which is India's state with the maximum human - wildlife conflict issues. A train passes by the board.

Rajasthan·wildlife

Obnoxious and apalling human safari of tourists at Ranthambore National Park: Tiger and other animals come out to see human visitors who come en masse like they do to a zoo, and disturb the animals from up close!

wildlife

Wild Sambhar Deer chws on plastic and begs for food: This is what we have done to our wild animals. Tourists look on and try to prod the hiran, and feed it too. This despite strict rules in national parks.

wildlife · birds

Darzi chidiya: Common Tailor Bird seen at Wilderness Orchard in Delhi is a universally known bird The Tailor Bird completes the nest and then begins to incubate its eggs, after laying them...

wildlife

Look at those giant sound gathering ears on a Sambhar deer at Ranthambhor National Park in Rajasthan! All the better to hear you with, one would say! The Deer are on the alert and on the look and sound out for potential predators such as ti…

birds · wildlife

With a little reed patch under its tail, this is perhaps the most common and widespread Bulbul in India - The Red-vented Bulbul is a cheery frequently seen garden bird across cities and is often seen in light woodland as well.

Rajasthan·wildlife

A sub-adult male Tiger stalks among Adhotoda vasica shrubs, it feels hot in the summer sun, and eventually settles into a water body near some trees, at Ranthambore National Park in Rajasthan. Tiger at Ranthambhor

Rajasthan·wildlife · forest

Witness the raw beauty of nature as a magnificent tiger gracefully quenches its thirst at the Ranthambore Wildlife Sanctuary.

West Bengal·hills · wildlife

Himalayan Black Bear, Red Panda and Snow Leopard at Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park in Darjeeling. A Red Panda sits lazily on a trunk and flicks its tongue in and out of its mouth.

hills · birds

Nesting duties of the White-throated Laughing thrush of the Himalaya: Feeding time for yellow gaped babies A White-throated Laughing Thrush spreads her wings wide to protect delicate chicks from summer sun, as she sits in her nest atop her…

wildlife

Black or Pariah Kite catches hold of its prey - Squirrel #wildlife #foodchain #birdsofdelhi

highway · wildlife

Worst road surface in India? Giant rock-crushing Tata Hitachi crane conquers rocks, forges new roads See how precariously it stands with the drill in the cement road surface! A crane specially designed for breaking rocks is commonly known a…

birds · wildlife

Purple Sunbirds (Cinnyris asiaticus) are tiny little birds seen in the Indian subcontinent. The birds feed primarily on nectar but can also be seen eating small insects.

forest · wildlife

Satpura Tiger Reserve is a habitat of 52 species of Mammals, 31 of Reptiles and 300 species of birds, out of which 14 are endangered. STR also a habitat of arboreal mammals like Flying Squirrel, Indian Giant Squirrel and Leaf nosed bats.

birds · wildlife

Fierce beauty-Crested Eagle sitting on a tree branch unhinged by the torrential rain.