wildlife

wildlife · birds

Wire-tailed Swallows preen themselves sitting on a dried bamboo stem,and in general are elegant birds with neat tail tips, rust on their crowns and generally chirpy behaviour.

wildlife · birds

Monal takes a poop! It lines itself up and then takes a massive dump... This beautiful bird is the Lophophorus impejanus, Impejan / Impeyan Pheasant, Monal Pheasant or Danphe, national bird of Nepal, state bird of Uttarakhand, and a beautif…

farmland · wildlife

This agile bird eats bees and catches insects on the wing, with great dexterity: The Asian Green Bee-eater at the Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi.

wildlife · birds

Forlorn looking bird with huge yellow eyes and a shy cute face! Stone Curlew protects its eggs in fierce summer sun The Stone Curlew nests at the Wilderness Orchard in Delhi.

West Bengal·birds · wildlife

Yuhina, Trogon, Minivet, Shama, Munia, Oriole, Sultan Tit, Niltava, Barbet and more! Variety of birds found in Latpanchar below Darjeeling

wildlife · birds

Yellow-billed Blue Magpie has lovely streaming tail feathers in blue & white: Truly an elegant bird, as seen in our wildfilmsindia mountains.

wildlife · birds

The Black Baza also trips over and loses balance as it tries to poach on ants on its branch, in addition to the green locust treat in its talons! This Black Baza eats ants that pass on a small tree branch, all the while consuming a rodent t…

forest · wildlife

Dark-Grey Bush Chat male approaches chicks with insect feed in its beak, at wildfilmsindia sanctuary Bird eating insect Uttarakhand A male Dark Grey Bush Chat nests in wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the Himalaya, and successfully fetches grubs…

wildlife · birds

The White-rumped Shama is one of India's finest songsters, but this pair chooses to remain silent as it is their breeding season and they do not wish to draw too much attention to themselves.

birds · wildlife

Speckled Piculet in Latpanchar: An inquisitive hyper-active bird that forages along small trunks of trees for larvae, insects and similar hidden gems.

birds · wildlife

Long-tailed Broadbill in Latpanchar: This bird's sharp green and yellow don't always lend to good camouflage! A Brainfever or Common Hawk-Cuckoo calls in the distance.

wildlife · forest

Green-billed Malkoha at Latpanchar : Non-parasitic cuckoo species is related to the Coucal Crow Pheasant The Green-billed Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus tristis) is a species of non-parasitic cuckoo found throughout Indian Subcontinent and Southea…

forest · wildlife

The Black Baza also trips over and loses balance as it tries to poach on ants on its branch, in addition to the green locust treat in its talons! This Black Baza eats ants that pass on a small tree branch, all the while consuming a rodent t…

birds · hills

The male is a red-scarlet sand the female is cheery yellow. Female Scarlet Minivet is the Rani in the Raja-rani duo of Minivets: Flashy-coloured mountain birds that draw attention to themselves.

birds · hills

The male is a red-scarlet sand the female is cheery yellow. Female Scarlet Minivet is the Rani or Queen in the Raja-rani duo of Minivets: Flashy-coloured mountain birds that draw attention to themselves.

wildlife · birds

Sultan Tit displaying by flapping wings, a jaunty little yellow-black fellow, as seen around Latpanchor forests in West Bengal.

birds · wildlife

The rather orange White-browed Piculet as seen in a rare sighting from West Bengal's Rongtong - Latpanchar - Mahananda birding belt.

railway · wildlife

Watch a DEAD animal come ALIVE! It seemed to be a dead monkey after it received an electric shock from a railway power line, but comes right back to life after assiduous licking, grooming and shocking by its monkey partner - a real life sim…

birds · wildlife

Jungle Crows eat bird meat as carrion in Orissa, having caught hold of a Myna One bird's loss is another bird's gain! Delhi - The City of Crows: A House Crow feeds on a roadkilled Myna on the ground

forest · hills

Handsome female Kalij pheasant at wildfilmsindia sanctuary in the Himalaya: Kaleej Phasant female with its prominent kalgi of head-gear feathers.

birds · hills

It's tail quivers as it delivers it's lovely call! Turquoise-like Verditer Flycatcher trills on dead grey branch against blue sky: Perfect blue on blue! Deep blue bird catches evening light sitting on a Himalayan Cedar or deodar branch, and…

wildlife · birds

It's tough to live a life in camouflage when you're a male Peafowl or Peacock!, carrying your long tail train around with you! How does such a flamboyant bird with few defences live in a crowded city like Delhi with such confidence?

birds · wildlife

Why do bird taxonomists make life so difficult? Just when one knows all the bird names, they go and change the lot, to sound important, perhaps!? Golden-backed Woodpecker or its new fancy name of Black-rumped Flameback : One and the same bi…