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wildlife · birds

Home to more than 300 species of migratory and non-migratory birds, Keoladeo National Park is one of the largest man-made wetlands in India. Some birds fly thousands of miles to breed in this monsoon fed wetland in Rajasthan.

wildlife · birds

Well, these birds sure got the geometry and measurements, the coordination and the discipline right while swimming together as a flock.

wildlife · birds

Up close, the stork's head looks like it is balding. It is called the painted stork because of the pink colour towards the end of of its long wing feathers or the long tertials.

Madhya Pradesh·wildlife · birds

Magpie-Robin or Oriental Magpie-Robin (Copsychus saularis), Rufous Treepie (Dendrocitta vagabunda), male Asian Koel (Eudynamys scolopaceus), female Black Redstart (Phoenicurus ochruros), Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) and Liitle Cormorant…

Rajasthan·livestock · birds

A herd of nilgai or Bluebull antelope walk in the backdrop of a flock of Bar-headed Geese flying in to land at a Bharatpur wetland, even as a huge group of village cows graze in the same habitat, thus causing a major conflict between protec…

wildlife · birds

Life in the wild is always a competition and a display of superiority within and among species. Underwater, on land, in the air it's a display of survival of the fittest every day.

Madhya Pradesh·wildlife · birds

A resident bird in India, watch the tallest flying bird flying in slow motion. Tall pale gray crane with pink legs and red bare skin on head extending down the neck. Juvenile facial coloring less prominent.

Madhya Pradesh·birds · wildlife

We used to call this the Great Horned Owl or Bubo bubo but names keep changing, it seems! Camouflaged perfectly between two rocks and unamused at the camera pointing towards it inside Panna Tiger Reserve in Madhya Pradesh.

wildlife · birds

Just how does its neck not snap off? And how does it not choke on larger fish that it swallows? Nonetheless, watching this ungainly yet graceful bird dry out its wings and stretch them out with its sinewy neck looking one way and the other,…

wildlife · birds

The stunning Indian Blue Jay also known as the Nilkanth is the state bird of a few southern states in India.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

Some of the birds of Jim Corbett National Park are showcased in this video. From Green Bee-eaters (Merops orientalis) to a solitary King Vulture or Red-headed Vulture (Sarcogyps calvus), we move onwards to a stunning peacock (Pavo cristatus…

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

This bird's nest perhaps belongs to a Turtle Dove. The eggs are exposed. The typical two white exposed eggs on a bed of sticks is most likely to be that of a dove. This footage was filmed in the 1990's around Bhimtal in Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand·hills · wildlife

A Red-billed Blue Magpie (Urocissa erythroryncha) sits at its nest to incubate its eggs near Nainital in Uttarakhand.

Himachal Pradesh·forest · snow

The brilliantly plumed Impeyan or Monal Pheasant (Lophophorus impeyanus) is both the state bird of Himachal and the national bird of Nepal.

birds · hills

The Red-billd Blue Magpie is one of the more elegant birds to be seen in a Himalayan hill station or in light middle altitude forests, even though it is a corvid or a crow family member (no, nothing to do with covid).

hills · snow

In cold late winter rain, this rare male Koklass Pheasant has found itself this overhang with moss, where he chooses to hide. But the location is not very effective, and the feathers of the bird get wet.

birds · wildlife

The common raptor or bird of prey of urban India is the Pariah Kit and while it is a bird of prey and can thus hunt, it has been reduced to scavenging in rubbish dumps and picking up scraps and morsels of food left behind by humans, for the…

birds · lake

The Pond Heron is in full breeding plumage and has a blue base to the beak and delicate long feathers on the nape and these catch the breeze! An Indian Pond Heron (Ardeola grayii) stretches its neck on the lookout for food.

river · wildlife

The Spotted Forktail bird is a cheery little thing, with a smart attire of black and white, and a lovely recuved tail that it flicks up and down, as it moves and gambols along the Tirthan river, snapping up insects in the fast flowing water…

wildlife · forest

The smartly attired black eye striped Dark Gray Bush Chat sits on a tiny twig and trills, while flicking up its tail with each trill.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

The Dark Gray Bushchat is a cute little neatly turned out bird with a black stripe across the eye, as seen here at the Jabbarkhet sanctuary of wildfilmsindia, in the western Himalaya.

birds · forest

This Golden backed Woodpecker is zygodactylic or in other words has two toes pointing in front and two pointing back, to give it better grip when climbing tree-trunks vertically! Thirsty, a Black-rumped Flameback Woodpecker shares the mini…

wildlife · birds

Ever seen a bird sun-bathe, and that too in 50 degrees Celcius? Watch this crazy hoopoe that has gone a little cookie! It turns its beak to the sun and sky and looks a little crazed in the heat, but it's actually just fine.