wildlife

Rajasthan·wildlife · birds

This is an example of how NOT to treat a wild bird - this is not how we would normally film a bird in the wild, and appears to be terribly intrusive, but this was done as documentation for and by the Forest department which was monitoring t…

Rajasthan·forest · wildlife

A group of foreign tourists take a boat tour through Keoladeo Bird Sanctuary. Visitors also take rickshaw for ride inside the park.

birds · wildlife

The red vented bulbul is a medium-sized bird about the same size as a starling (20 cm). Red vented bulbuls are active birds with a generally dark in appearance with a white abdomen and rump and a distinctive crimson-red patch beneath its ta…

river · wildlife

The Australasian pipit (Anthus novaeseelandiae) is a fairly small passerine bird. It belongs to the pipit genus Anthus in the family Motacillidae.

wildlife · birds

See how and why the phrase got coined! Water falls on a rare White-winged Wood Duck's back and literally drips or rolls off, without wetting the bird.

wildlife · birds

The common buzzard, a bird of prey whose range covers most of Europe and extends into Asia. Over much of its range, it is resident year-round, but birds from the colder parts of the northern hemisphere typically migrate south for the northe…

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.

wildlife · forest

That lovely trilling call you hear is that of the Indian Junglefowl - the progenitor of all domestic fowl around the world! It is followed by the click-click-click of a White-breasted Kingfisher and the distant calls of a Blue-throated Barb…

wildlife · birds

Pied or White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) running along the beaches of Bakkhali, West Bengal, India.

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.

Rajasthan·wildlife · birds

The blue-tailed bee-eater (Merops philippinus) is a near passerine bird in the bee-eater family Meropidae. It breeds in southeastern Asia. It is strongly migratory, seen seasonally in much of peninsular India.

Himachal Pradesh·wildlife · birds

The European goldfinch or goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis), is a small passerine bird in the finch family that is native to Europe, North Africa and western Asia.

Himachal Pradesh·wildlife · birds

The European goldfinch or goldfinch (Carduelis carduelis), is a small passerine bird in the finch family that is native to Europe, North Africa and western Asia.

Himachal Pradesh·wildlife · birds

The pipits are a cosmopolitan genus, Anthus, of small passerine birds with medium to long tails. Along with the wagtails and longclaws, the pipits make up the family Motacillidae.

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.

wildlife · birds

The White Wagtail is mostly an aquatic bird, but this species can be common in various types of habitats, as well near water to hunt as in urban parks and cities for roosting in trees.

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…

Rajasthan·birds · wildlife

A Purple Moorhen eats off its foot! Have you ever heard of a bird using its foot as a hand to collect foot and feed itself? Perhaps with a parakeet but not a water bird, surely!

Rajasthan·wildlife · birds

The black-necked stork (Ephippiorhynchus asiaticus) is a tall long-necked wading bird in the stork family. It is a resident species across the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia with a disjunct population in Australia.

Madhya Pradesh·birds · river

Orange-breasted Blue Flycatcher, a Leaf Warbler and a Crested Serpent Eagle sitting atop a tall tree, on the look-out for prey, at Panna National Park, in central's India's Madhya Pradesh state.

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…

Rajasthan·wildlife · birds

Migratory Demoiselle Cranes flying over rural Khichan village in Rajasthan, India. The demoiselle crane (Anthropoides virgo) is a species of crane found in central Eurasia, ranging from the Black Sea to Mongolia and North Eastern China.

hills · wildlife

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