Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Nepal. The avifauna of Nepal include a total of 915 species recorded, of which one is endemic , and one has been introduced by humans. 42 species are globally threatened.
It is the national bird of Nepal, where it is known as the danphe or danfe, [2] and state bird of Uttarakhand, India, where it is known as a monal. [3] The scientific name commemorates Lady Mary Impey, the wife of the British chief justice of Bengal, Sir Elijah Impey.
The only bird even remotely similar to adult males of the Bengal florican is the lesser florican (Sypheotides indica). This is a smaller, slimmer-necked bustard overall, and its males have cheek-tufts of plumes with pennant-like tips rather than the crest, and a white band between neck and back. The females are similar, and young Bengal ...
This article is one of a series providing information about endemism among birds in the world's various zoogeographic zones. For an overview of this subject see Endemism in birds . List of species
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range Size and ecology IUCN status and estimated population Himalayan monal Male Female Lophophorus impejanus (Latham, 1790) Afghanistan and Pakistan through the Himalayas in India, Nepal, southern Tibet, and Bhutan. Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Sclater's monal Female Lophophorus sclateri Jerdon, 1870
About 200 species of birds have been recorded in this ecoregion of which six are endemic; chestnut-breasted partridge (Arborophila mandellii), hoary-throated barwing (Actinodura nipalensis), brown-throated fulvetta (Alcippe ludlowi), Nepal cupwing (Pnoepyga immaculata), buff-throated partridge (Tetraophasis szechenyii), and Lord Derby's ...
There are 208 mammal species reported including 28 species outside the limits of the protected areas but excluding four known extinct species. [4] Among the species of mammal found in Nepal, notable are the Bengal fox, Bengal tiger, clouded leopard, corsac fox, Asiatic lion, Asiatic elephant, marbled cat, Indian pangolin, Chinese pangolin, red panda, snow leopard, Tibetan fox and Tibetan wolf.
Endangered (EN) species are considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild. In December 2019, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) listed 460 endangered avian species. [1] Of all evaluated avian species, 4% are listed as endangered. No subpopulations of birds have been evaluated by the IUCN.