wildlife

Rajasthan·wildlife · birds

The Greater Coucal, is a very familiar bird in Bharatpur's bird sanctuary. This bird is a widespread and common breeding resident.

Rajasthan·forest · wildlife

The Treepie is a bird of open forest. In here, we can see this fella jumping from branch to branch at Keoladeo National Park in Bharatpur. This is only one of the numerous bird species you will be able to observe at this bird sanctuary.

birds · wildlife

This is the ubiquitous Pond Heron - the most common water bird in India. Behind it stands an Indian Moorhen.

wildlife · birds

Unlike the very much more familiar and even urban Red-wattled Lapwing or titeeri, the Yellow-wattled is a shier cousin who prefers arid dry lands and uncultivated tracts, opting to lead a spartan life among pebbles or kankar, dry grasses an…

birds · wildlife

With its shrill piercing squeal and the delicate long crest feathers that can rise when it is threatened or wants to intimidate, the Crested Hawk Eagle is truly a bird of thick forests in India.

wildlife · crafts

Salim Ali, the famous Indian ornithologist, famously described the breeding biology of the Common Baya or Weaver Bird (Ploceus philippinus.).

wildlife · birds

The Black-headed Oriole, known locally as the peelak or the Mango bird, is one of the most pleasing birds to encounter in India! The whistling mellow voice, the mango-like plumage and the flash of yellow you see as of flies by - you will be…

wildlife · birds

Salim Ali, the famous Indian ornithologist, famously described the breeding biology of the Common Baya or Weaver Bird (Ploceus philippinus.).

wildlife · birds

A flock of Demoiselle Cranes flies in V formation. Migrating birds fly in a V-formation to take advantage of the aerodynamic effects of flying behind another bird.

wildlife · birds

Rosy Starlings or Rosy Pastors and a Magpie Robin seem to be calling in the backdrop as this hariyal or Green Pigeon preens itself, digests the Ficus fruit in its stomach, processes it from its gizzard and simultaneously poops it out from t…

birds · wildlife

Terpsiphone paradisi is surely one of the most elegant and graceful birds to be seen in India.

crafts · wildlife

Experience the movements of a Baya Weaver Bird as it comes to its nest and flies away in a slow motion. As it flies away each of the feathers in its wings are visible. This beautiful tiny little bird sits on the branch of a tree.

birds · wildlife

A Verediter flycatcher is sitting on the branch of a tree moving its head to and fro continuously. Theçwith its striking features and the black patched eye calls and scratches its feathers.

Rajasthan·wildlife · birds

Atop on the hillock of Jawai Bandh in Rajasthan stands a peafowl. The peafowl stares and looks all around.

wildlife · birds

White throated muniya or the Indian Silverbill can be seen sitting on the branch of a tree. The muniya chirps perching on the branch of a tree.

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

At Corbett National Park, a nesting Red-breasted Parakeet feeds its young ones at the opening to their nest-hole... See how it uses its beak as a third leg - almost like a tripod.

wildlife · birds

A Hoopoe enjoys a dust bath on a dusty road in India. It splashes its open wings and feathers into the dust, in order to clean our mites and other parasites and allow the dust to clean its inner skin.

wildlife · birds

Two pretty yellow and black birds of India - the mango bird of the Black-headed Oriole and the Common Iora seen in a village grove in Odisha, eastern India. Both love insects are live in wooded groves.

wildlife · birds

How cumbersome it must be for the male Peafowl to carry its ungainly trail of tail feathers around with him, jumping up walls, flying into trees to roost and so much more! What if someone steps on his tail feathers as he walks...? Indian pe…

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

Rufous-winged Shrike Babbler or white browed shrike babbler in Landour. A viewer tells us this is a Himalayan Shrike-babbler.

wildlife · crafts

The Ploceus philippinus or the Common Baya Weaver Bird is one that is much eulogized in Indian mythology and a common resident of village outskirts and around farmlands. Not a common sight these days, what with rampant urbanization.

wildlife · birds

Male oriole is bright golden-yellow plumage; black stripe through the eye; black wings and centre of the tail. Female on the other hand yellow-green above; brownish-green wings; dirty-white below, streaked brown.

birds · wildlife

The Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea), is a wading bird of the heron family Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa.