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wildlife · birds

Orthotomus sutorius or the Common Tailor Bird or Darzi chiriya uses sutures bound with cotton to weave a nest out of two leaves of a Giloy or Tinospora cordifolia (Ramdev's favourite medicinal plant!) creeper along a wall, thus earning itse…

hills · forest

Spring-time and it's breeding and mating time for these Kaleej Pheasants at our wildfilmsindia wildlife sanctuary in the Himalaya.

birds · wildlife

The brilliant blue plumage shines in the summer sunshine of the Himalaya, offset by the green forest hues behind.

forest · wildlife

See the lovely perky jaunty feathered crest move atop its head whenever it bobs its head! This Whiskered Yuhina is related to the plains White-eye and is a shy retiring bird of thick forest cover and doesn't come out into the open a lot, or…

hills · wildlife

Are those hishalu or wild Himalayan raspberry that the Yuhina is feeding her chicks? The nest is concealed with moss and Erigeron daisies grow around it, even as a Himalayan Barbet creates a racket with its loud piercing calls.

birds · hills

The most beautiful trilling caller in the Himalaya, surely, the Verditer Flycatcher warbles its call loudly in spring, sitting atop an Oak tree, with a Hill Barbet calling out closely as well.

wildlife · birds

Once common in our gardens, our houses and even on streets, the Common House Sparrow has all but vanished from our lives. A precious few of these small birds are now seen on rare occasions.

birds · hills

The Blue Whistling Thrush (Myophonus caeruleus) gets its name from its very human-like whistle of a call. Often seen jumping off the edge of a mountain road, this a a common and familiar Himalayan bird.

wildlife · birds

Blue Rock Pigeons are survivors and do surprisingly well in urban areas. They do so well indeed that they have even become pests for some and people need to put metal spikes to prevent these birds from constantly nesting and spreading dropp…

wildlife · birds

A Darzi Chidiya gives finishing touches to her funnel shaped nest, put together by complicatedly stitching together sutures between two teak tree leaves, using cotton like fibers.

wildlife · birds

We spotted this Spotted Munia in our Delhi garden one monsoon day this week, as a surprise. They don't normally venture our way, but the monsoon weather and tall grasses have undoubtedly made it attractive for them to visit us now...

wildlife · birds

Common Tailor Bird stitches its nest with elan: India's darzi chidiya also known as Orthotomus sutorius for sutures that it makes.

wildlife · birds

A Darzi chidiya creates sutures to expertly stitch together its leaf nest. Expertly and deftly weaving the cotton fibers it has collected from plants and leaves, this Tailor Bird makes little holes in two Teak tree leaves that it has brough…

birds · wildlife

What a lovely trilling call created with the beak opened and pointed upwards! The lovely crimson-red feathers of the crest show up in rich tones in this video! Lovely trill of a Golden-backed Flameback Woodpecker - hear it call out aloud fr…

wildlife · birds

Settled in comfortably into its little hammock nest created at the fork of two twigs of an Ashoka tree within our building complex, this cute bird incubates her clutch of eggs with confidence and style.

birds · wildlife

This Red-vented Bulbul and White-eye are almost keeling over in their hunt for black ripe Lantana berries inside a shrub at the Wilderness Orchard! It's truly party time when the berries ripen.

wildlife · birds

With one chick just having got out of its egg, and another chick two days old, this mother Lapwing is in panic! Her third egg is just not hatching and she cannot divert attention from the two roving chicks to permanently sit on the lone egg…

wildlife · birds

Fixing spider's egg sacks and cocoons into its nest, this White-eye settles in to her hammock nest, makes herself cosy and sets about laying her eggs, in a hammock nest made between two twigs, in an Oriole like fashion...

Uttarakhand·birds · wildlife

A Grey-headed Canary Flycatcher preens and scouts out for insects from a bare twig, at the wildfilmsindia Jabbarkhet wildlife sanctuary and botanical gardens.

birds · wildlife

Making frequent sallies from its perch, this Flycatcher then returns each time to the same twig.

hills · wildlife

Having bathed in our little stream, this Himalayan Tree Pie dries off and preens on a twig nearby.

wildlife · birds

Hear the vocalization of the Broadbill in this video! What a unusual combination of bright green and bright yellow? For a bird that needs to be camouflaged in low foothill and low Himalayan forests, that seems like an unlikely combination o…

wildlife · crafts

Baya Weaver Birds favour tall aloof palm trees for their pendulous nests. They obtain ideal leaf fronds that can suspend their nests firmly and also obtain fibre from the leaves for their nests! Male Baya Weaver Birds (Ploceus philippinus)…