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Birds of India www.wildfilmsindia.com - We own the world's largest archive of factual content from South Asia, w Wilderness Films India Ltd.

As India's ONLY public limited company in the factual space, we're in the process of currently setting up India's first factual programming channel, a sort of South Asian answer to existing factual content plays. We are also developing a global stock footage and stills sales portal, along the lines of Corbis or Getty, utilizing our 750, 000 stills and broadcast HD archive of 15, 000+ hours, which

...together make us the largest stock footage resource on South Asia, in the world. Among other awards, we won the "Incredible India Award" and the "National Tourism Award", for the best tourism film made in India. Of course, we don't take labels seriously - our best work remains yet to be discovered! Years back, we started using the first High Definition cameras in north India, with our Sony HDW F900 HDCAM's. We now have a few hundred Canon and Fujinon Hi Def lenses, dozens of HD cameras including HDW 730S and HDW F900's, HDCAM VTR's, HD post-production solutions, Panasonic Varicam DVC Pro HD and P2, and the ability to create a range of features and productions on HD, from concept to master... We also have a SRW 9000 HDCAM SR 880 mbps camcorder with PL and B4 mounts, RED Epic and Arri Alexa, with a small collection of Zeiss Ultra Primes. We're also pushing HDV and XDCAM HD as lower-cost tapeless HD options. Apart from Hi Def, we have a wide inventory of standard definition camera units and VTR's of virtually every format and standard in use worldwide. We just shot and contributed a large chunk of footage for Off The Fence's 5 X 52" HD series Wildest India which is on air, we're undertaking many stories for Beyond and NGC's Taboo series, and are now working on the 5 X 52' HD series My Himalaya, apart from literally hundreds of corporate films for Fortune 500 companies, smaller docus for international television and our various online properties including 'A Visual Mapping of the Indian subcontinent' at the to-be-launched www.asianmiracle.com

There is only one broadcast and television entity in India that can take care of all your requirements - for filming, video transfers, editing, footage and programming. has the widest range of formats, be it Digital Betacam, P2, XDCAM HD, HDV, DVCAM, DVC Pro HD or HDCAM SR, and we're all enthusiastic industry folks. We have 90 broadcast camera units in-house, 20 editing units, 50 full-time and 50 freelance staff, with capacity for up to ten professionally equipped field crews, available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We also have vehicles, editing facilities and VTR's of all formats (PAL and NTSC), tapestock, producers, directors, an in-house travel agent (for your air and ground transportation, even helicopter charters), uplinking - the works...

We have the largest international production coordination and locations network in South Asia, and can provide camera units, crews, ground support and coordination, as per your requirements. We've been in the business for 25 years and are a reliable, committed, audited and responsible public limited company! Be it an international production that requires a partner or an entirely Indian show, we have the solution for you, with our production department producing several international documentaries each year. We've shot on Everest for a four month period, and in just about every corner of the Himalaya over the past two and a half decades. Our unique stock library houses 15, 000+ hours on HD and over 750, 000 still images. We have more than eight hundred clients across India, and over five hundred around the world, including CNN, BBC, NGC, Discovery, EBU, NHK, WGBH, Star TV, BSkyB, TV5, and a host of others.

Golden-backed Woodpeckers anting with amla tree sap! First time ever documented, it seems...That big brown hole in the t...
30/06/2020

Golden-backed Woodpeckers anting with amla tree sap! First time ever documented, it seems...

That big brown hole in the tree trunk seems to be an ayurvedic pharmacy for this katphora couple!

It is not just humans who recognize the properties of the Aonla or Amla tree. Birds such as the Golden-backed Woodpecker seem to know the virtues of the tree, as well. This bird is pecking at one particular spot on the trunk, baring a small green hole into the sap. It pecks out the sap and applies it to its wings and feathers, probably for anti-bacterial properties. There are loads of Vitamin C in the sap and fruit as well. What other reason could there be, for this strange and never-before-recorded behaviour?

This bird is pecking for therepeutic and prophylactic reasons, not looking for insects or grubs or worms in this case... Birds seem to have a greater immune building response than humans. They know where to look for the right chemicals, ingredients and materials. This is a rare case of anting with amla tree sap!

That big brown hole in the tree trunk seems to be an ayurvedic pharmacy for this katphora couple! It is not just humans who recognize the properties of the A...

Polygamy among birds? Female House Crow sits on eggs in nest, second female crow edges in to share dutiesThis seems to b...
30/06/2020

Polygamy among birds? Female House Crow sits on eggs in nest, second female crow edges in to share duties

This seems to be rare and first-time-ever behaviour that we have recorded. Can anyone comment on it?

A female Corvus splendens incubates eggs on her nest in Delhi. a second female crow edges in. It seems the two females have a strange arrangement of co-nidif...

Peacock is only the male of the Indian Peafowl which is really a pheasant species! So let's not be sexist and call all o...
04/09/2019

Peacock is only the male of the Indian Peafowl which is really a pheasant species! So let's not be sexist and call all of them peacocks. They really are peafowl - peacocks and peahens...

Obviously, the peafowl has fantastic Public Relations skills, for it has persuaded Indians to not hunt it, has adapted to living in human-changed habitats and still manages to lay its eggs on the ground (or now adapted to using roof-tops also!) and hatch its chicks without too much disturbance. Their numbers are also doing well. We wish other pheasant in India had similarly adept PR skills! With it's gaudy colours, surely the peafowl does not use camouflage as one of it's New India survival skills and flaunts instead its inclusion in Schedule One of the Wildlife Protection Act of 1972, as it's 'janta nahi hoon mein kiska beta hoon' ploy, like any 'bigra hua' Delhi brat!

See the courtship display of the male Indian Peafowl or Pavo cristatus, known more commonly as the peacock. And yes, this species is a member of the Pheasanidae or pheasant family.

See the courtship display of the male Indian Peafowl or Pavo cristatus, known more commonly as the peacock. And yes, this species is a member of the Pheasani...

21/02/2019

This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collect...

More birds than you can fathom: Demoiselle Cranes crowd village of Khichan in RajasthanTo see the full video, Please cli...
21/02/2019

More birds than you can fathom: Demoiselle Cranes crowd village of Khichan in Rajasthan

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This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collect...

28/01/2019

This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collect...

25/01/2019

Sikkim - birding paradise extraordinaire

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23/01/2019

Indian Grey Hornbill

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A compilation of shots of the most common of the Indian Hornbills. This species is among the smallest of the Indian species, similar in size to the Malabar G...

05/01/2019
Magpie Robin is one of India's best songstersTo see the full video, Please click here"https://youtu.be/z7QheeUcJVAYouTub...
03/01/2019

Magpie Robin is one of India's best songsters

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This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collect...

29/12/2018

Mysterious huge bird enters village in West Bengal, Forest staff rescue it
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