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Pycnonotus cafer or the Red-vented Bulbul is a sprightly resident of city gardens in India. Coming up next is the Ashy Wren Warbler or Ashy Prinia. Spring brings new beginnings and fresh blossoms for this common passerine bird in India.

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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…

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A bunch of bulbuls get together to create panic around and mob a roosting Collared Scops Owl in the daytime, under the canopy of a creeper.

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Meet the Asian Koel, a frugivore known for its distinctive call and their brood parasitism behaviour. This is a male individual sitting on a branch looking around its surroundings.

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Even avid birders claim its hard to spot an Asian Koel because of the species' preference for dense foliage. These species are also known for their brood parasitic behaviour and the distinct sexual dimorphism.

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This beauty hides on tree trunks and in high city tree canopies, so you don't see it unless you hunt for it, and when you do you are richly rewarded with the sight of a bird so spectacularly plumed that its richness shines right at you.

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Watch this Woodpecker couple peck under rocks and in crevices of tree trunks, for ants and other insects, grubs and their cocoons. Black-rumped Flameback having a drink with Mynas.

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The Brahminy Starling is a member of the starling family of birds. They are usually seen in pairs or small flocks in open habitats on the plains of South Asia. This myna is pale buff creamy with a black cap and a loose crest.

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A garden-orchard in Delhi springs forth with summer-time activity. Mustard and broccoli, ripens in the fields, Green Bee-eaters look out for prey for look out points, Apis dorsata bees tend to their huge hive on the peepul tree, a Shikra p…

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Up close with a female Oriental Magpie Robin in its natural habitat. It can be heard calling and preening itself and wagging its tail, as the attendant male sits close by, guarding its territory and a male Koel calls out loudly from nearby.…

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They are the head banging rockstars of the natural world. Woodpeckers have a peculiar ability to pick on the wood surface for 20 times in a second without getting a headache.

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Unlike other birds that need to warm or incubate their eggs, the Lapwing lays its eggs in what goes up to 50 or even 52 degrees day-time heat, out in the open, in the middle of summer.

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Surely one of the most beautiful birds to be seen in India, the peelak or Oriolus oriolidae is a sight to behold! Males are bright yellow overall save for the black wings and inner tail feathers.

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Unless one is a bird watcher and live among birds, it is not very common to spot a bird feeding on its prey.

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A small passerine bird commonly found all over India and a resident breeder. They are seen in the urban parks and open forest. A dark, sleek, medium-sized bird with a black crest and a white rump.

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The majestic National Bird of India, the Indian Peafowl is filmed roosting and preening in the rains. This colourful bird are recorded to have been made pets in the past.

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The Common Moorhen is an aquatic bird and spends most of its time on the water and the ground. It feeds on insects, small aquatic fishes, algae etc. This Common Moorhen is caught walking on the branches of a Bakain or Persian Lilac tree.

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The striking features of male Asian Koel, the black plumage with the bluish sheen, crimson eyes and the beak are filmed up close.

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This Pond Heron is in breeding plumage mid-summer, with the lovely extended plume or feather on its nape.

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Red-wattled Lapwings are ground nesters and lay eggs on the ground in the spring. They usually lay a quartet of eggs and are camouflaged with the dry leaves and twigs on the ground.

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Watch the Red-vented Bulbul filmed up close perching on a small branch. With the ambiance of bird calls, the bulbul preens itself. A Koel calls out aloud close at hand...

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Like a contra rebel, the Pied Myna is coloured, perhaps? See the erstwhile named Sturnus contra. A pair of Pied Myna or Asian Pied Starling (Gracupica contra) sits on the branches of an Acacia tree near their nests.

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This parakeet uses its beak as a third sets of claws or feet, to locomate on the branches of a Persian Lilac or bakain tree. A common sight in parks and gardens in the urban areas, Rose-ringed Parakeet are not new to us.