Mature male Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi) incubating eggs on the nest! One also sees the female which is reddish-brown in colour and lacks the long streaming tail feathers of the white male.


This footage is part of the professionally-shot broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of imagery from South Asia. The Wilderness Films India collection comprises of thousands of hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on HDCAM 1080i High Definition, HDV and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world... Reach us at wfi @ vsnl.com and [email protected].
Note the eggs sacs that adorn the outside of the nest in a kathal or jackfruit tree! Also, the female turns her eggs before sitting on them, to ensure uniform incubation and humidity...

License at http://www.paya.com/videos/810090