![]() The legal status of this species in Nepal is Protected (Appendix I) under the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act 1973 and Appendix I in CITES law.įor more Information:- Inskipp et al. 2016.M/S of Mrs Wayre standing at a pond in a field at the Ornamental Pheasant Trust in Great Witchingham, Norfolk, throwing bread into the water, panning right to show numerous ducks swimming in the pond C/U of some ducks then M/S of ducks and swans on the water and Mrs W by the pond. Luckily for us cataloguers, commentator says "For those who like to be specific, the ducks are either Mandarin or Barrow's Golden Eye, while the swans are fine Australian specimens" M/S and nice C/U of a lovely black swan eating bread and gliding along. M/S of a man preparing food on a wooden box table C/U of the food it looks like he is chopping meat which he puts in an oblong feeding tray, he adds some grapes and carries the three trays towards the pheasant enclosure. C/U of a Himalayan Monal pheasant walking about beautiful colours of red-gold and green-black with a little topknot on its head. M/S of Mrs W getting into a large cage she holds a pine branch towards a Golden Pheasant C/U as she kneels down and tries to coax the bird towards her - the bird flutters and pecks sharply at her arm! (Youch! as Pete Smith would say.) M/Ss of a Silver Pheasant walking about with two female pheasants nice C/Us as he flutters his wings. Its total population is only about 10,000 and is thus listed in the vulnerable category of threatened species and is Scheduled I species of Wildlife Protection Act, 1972,” he added.M/S and C/Us of a Reeve Pheasant, "like the others, also from China" says the commentator - beautiful colouring in his golden feathers outlined in black. “This pheasant is restricted to Arunachal Pradesh on the Indian side. ![]() It is a high-altitude bird and rarely comes down below 1,500 metres,” said Daniel Mize, an assistant professor of zoology at the Rajiv Gandhi University near State capital Itangar. ![]() “Sclater’s monal is an endemic bird of the Eastern Himalaya, mostly recorded from the junction of India, Myanmar, Tibet and Yunnan province of China. ![]() Tamuk said.īoth Sela (western Arunachal Pradesh) and Mayodia (eastern Arunachal Pradesh) are mountain passes at 4,170 metres and 2,655 metres above sea level. We could not get clearer photographs as the birds were 1.5 km away and difficult to reach,” Dr. “Slater’s monal and Himalayan monal were earlier sighted from Sela and Mayodia in Arunachal Pradesh, but this is the first photographic record of these birds in Upper Siang. The expedition team recorded 80 species of birds apart from the monals. Komji Lipik and Bomeh, also in Upper Siang district, are on the way to Mount Eko Dumbing, which is covered by snow for the most part of the year. A pair of male and female Himalayan monal was sighted at Bomeh at 3,700 metres above mean sea level. Tamuk, an orthopaedic surgeon at a private hospital in Assam’s Dibrugarh, toldĪ male Sclater’s monal, listed as vulnerable by the International Union of Conservation of Nature was also sighted near Komji Lipik at an altitude of 2,850 metres. “Sighting the two species of pheasants is a good indicator of the ecology of the area,” Dr. The sighting was during an expedition in April. Everest climber Kishon Tekseng and his team sighted the birds on Mount Eko Dumbing at 4,173 metres above mean sea level. Lophophorus sclateri ) monal is found in southern China and northern Myanmar.Ī trio of wildlife enthusiasts – Obang Mibang, Tajir Tamuk and Geyong Tayeng – led by Mt. Lophophorus impejanus ) is more widely distributed from Afghanistan to northeast India, the rarer Sclater’s ( Local wildlife enthusiasts have sighted two species of monal, a colour pheasant, together in Upper Siang district of central Arunachal Pradesh.
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