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Notice that the folks feeding the pigeons have masks or cloth on their faces, due to Covid19. The Common Pigeon is seen everywhere in the urban areas in large numbers and they have adapted well to human settlements.

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Looks like these Common Mynas have are either hatching or they already have young ones inside this tree hollow. Their tree trunk residence has got a makeover of a wooden sunroof. The pair fuss over their nesting place.

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With its black necklace, this female teetar is panting in the summer sun - so extreme is the day-time heat in June that it goes up to 52 degrees Celcius in the sun! This game bird is found mostly in grassland, open agricultural forests and…

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A dainty little bird, the Green Bee-eater (Merops orientalis) feeds on insects and bees and hence the name. The small bird has been filmed in the compound of a farmhouse in the Delhi outskirts. It is caught preening itself.

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Mynas are supposed to nest in tree hollows and rock wall holes, but here is a rare exception where they have built a nest on a tree! A Common Myna sits on the branch of a Peepal tree near its nest. The bird is filmed preening its feathers.

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Spring in the outskirts of New Delhi might be more exciting than you expect. The polluted and congested city and we do not generally expect these colourful birds in spring.

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Magpie family corvids or crow-like Tree Pies sit on and around their twig nest on a Teak tree in Delhi. While the female incubates the eggs, the male sits around the nest and keeps her company.

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This small songster sings away in the evening calling out to the female from a conspicuous branch with no foliage, puffing up its feathers. This small bird is considered as one of the best songbirds and observed to be singing vigorously.

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Not without reason, the Mango bird appears as a burst of golden yellow. The male Indian Golden Oriole sits on a branch alone and preens itself. Watch the colour and anatomy of this colourful bird, the black wings and the dark eyes.

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Yes, so this proves that bee eaters do indeed eat bees as well! The Merops orientalis takes the fight out of the Apis dorsata bee, by battering it repeatedly on the twig it's sitting on.

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These Mynas took charge of this hollow log nesthole that we created on a Ber or Zizyphus tree in Delhi. Common Mynas are observed taking over nest built by other birds in tree hollows and boxes.

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Spring comes and courtship of these small birds is at a peak. A male Oriental Magpie Robin calls for its female. Ruffled feathers and the female on a barren branch seems to be reciprocating the same.

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Hear the bird calls of Delhi from early spring-time! The late spring to monsoon and the Wilderness Orchard in Chattarpur is alive with flowers and the birds in mating season.

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The Common Myna usually encroaches on the nests of other birds. But this one is busy collecting fresh leaves and putting them inside the hollow of a tree. We have made a wooden roof for them around the opening of the hollow.

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This bird just needs purple feathers during the breeding season to attract the ladies! Small but conspicuous with its breeding plumage of metallic blue, a male Purple Sunbird roosts on a barren twig calling for a female.

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A lone male Oriental Magpie-Robin with ruffled wings and calling out to the females. It sure is multitasking when it was caught on film. Feeding, mating calls, pooping all at the same time.

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Pigeon poop spreads disease and they often leave droppings on window sills of houses. How safe are pigeons to have breed on your window sills? A flock of Feral Rock Pigeon congregate at a feeding station at a sidewalk in New Delhi.

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A rare view of a Safed Teetar nesting on he ground, and sitting atop a clutch of eight cream coloured eggs. Shot in time lapse, she goes round and round the nest, and takes a full circle in the span of an hour of so...

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See the shy sex of the Keol species. Even the male Koel cuckoo is more often seen streaking across the sky, with a pair of crows in hot pursuit, but the female is hardly ever seen, and when it is seen, it is often mistaken for a baaz or a S…

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Asian Koels are hard to notice due to their preference to thick foliage and calls only during the mating season. The North Indian summer is here at our Wilderness Orchard and these male Asian Koels are also feeling it.

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Sharp and considered the apex hunter among urban birds, Shikras are small but can be quite the predator. But this one here over-run with a colony of ants and flies feeding on it has been unlucky.

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The Lapwing when it lays eggs in 55 degrees Celcius heat and must sit on them to cool them and humidify them, instead of warming them like birds. Once hatched, the mother regurgitates up food to feed the new-born chick.

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In the spring the Wilderness Orchard is full of the semi urban and urban birds who have adapted to a bit of human presence around them. A female Coppersmith Barbet dissipating heat with its beak open and panting.