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birds · wildlife

Common Mynas are good at adapting and hence thrive even in urban areas. Their adaptation for survival is such that they usually lay eggs in nests made by other birds and take over the nests.

birds · flowers

The closest equivalent we have to a Hummingbird here in India! The Purple Sunbird is capable ot rapid wing beats to sustain flight in pause mode, in the same place much like a helicopter, to suck at flower nectar.

monsoon · wildlife

Peafowl love the rains for that is when they get to display, mate and look after their broods. But this male looks a little bedraggled in the rain.

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These Zesterops palpebrosa couple hover over a small water body and then decide to plunge in, after first hesitatingly approaching the water from a the stem of a small plant.

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A flock of Jungle Babblers have been spotted noisily playing and having a mock fight. Individuals of this bird are also filmed flicking through the layers of leaves foraging for food. These birds are noisy and very social.

railway · wildlife

This Pavo crsistatus tries his dance-display on another species - a pair of Lapwing plovers, before trying it on females of his own kind! Practice makes perfect? An immature Peacock without its train of tail feathers is filmed foraging with…

birds · wildlife

This small banyan tree is supporting a lot of life in the hot Delhi summer. The birds common in Delhi, Common Myna and Oriental Magpie Robin are seen getting comfortable as they preen and calls from the top.

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Bright yet calm colours of yellow, gray and green, a duo of Yellow-footed Pigeon sits on the top end of a Banyan tree. These birds are common in India and even in the urban areas. It is the state bird of Maharashtra.

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The small green birds are definitely feeling the Delhi heat with their beaks wide open. This is to bring down their internal body temperature.

birds · wildlife

The closest equivalent we have to a Hummingbird here in India! The Purple Sunbird is capable of rapid wing beats to sustain flight in pause mode, in the same place much like a helicopter, to suck at flower nectar.

wildlife · birds

A juvenile Indian Grey Hornbill is dozing in Delhi in peak summer/monsoon. With a less developed casque the bird sits on a small branch with its beak wide open.

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Summers in North India is extreme and this small flock of Jungle Babblers are also feeling it. They are filmed drinking water near a small fresh water source. One of the birds goes in for aa dive.

wildlife · birds

At 1:55, see the eye lashes the hornbill baby! Local names for the hornbill include Lamdhor, Dhanesh and Chalotra.

wildlife · birds

Small bird with long beak, reddish crown, and yellow vent this bird is commonly found India and other parts of South Asia. A solo bird sitting on a small branch is profusely grooming its feathers.

birds · wildlife

A male and female Purple Sunbird in attired in their breeding plumage busy probing for nectar in the flowering bud of Canna lilies.

birds · wildlife

With its large yellow circled black eyes, cute rounded face and brown and white speckled plumage, the Spotted Owlet is not even a full owl, as it is an owlet! Meet the urban owl of India - a vision in bird! What lovely colours around the ow…

wildlife · birds

Orthotomus sutorius. 'sutorius' as it sutures or stitches! A Common Tailorbird individual is seen right after a downpour at our Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi. Take a look at the bird that stitches leaves for a nest.

wildlife · music

The perils of living close to human beings. These poor Mynas probably got electrocuted on these wires. Sad story.

wildlife · birds

A small but interesting bird, common but rarely seen is the Common Tailorbird's nest. scientifically names Orthotomus sutorius, sutorious meaning a 'cobbler' derived from its behaviour of 'stitching' leaves together as nest.

wildlife · birds

Adept insect-eater and winged predator, this sharp bird has a pointed tail tip and is agile too Asian Green Bee-eater perches on a twig, chirruping joyously, ready to catch insects on the wing, at the Wilderness Orchard in New Delhi.

birds · wildlife

Bird calls in the backdrop of siren calls from ambulances comprises of a day in the life of urban birds like these Common Mynas in Delhi. Sitting atop a Banyan Tree (Ficus benghalensis) in a busy intersection in Moti Bagh.

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A parent Common Myna (Acridotheres tristis) flies out of the foliage of neem leaves inside a park. There must be a nest in the hollow of the tree from which it is flying out.

wildlife · birds

It is unusual for a Darzi chidiya to make a nest in a banana leaf as such a large leaf is tough to tame, but the tiny Tailor Bird has stripped the leaf sideways and turned the stripped portion inwards to stitch it together.