Saving Nepal's birds for our future
Birds delight our senses, stir our imagination, and inform us about ecosystem complexity.
Ibisbill
Crimson Sunbird, male
This extraordinary species, resembling an ibis, migrates from the Himalayas to southern Nepal in the winter where it forages for invertebrates in fast-running water. It is usually wary, requiring patience and persistence to capture its beauty.
The sunbirds can be thought of as the Old World's counterpart of hummingbirds in the New World. They are often just as striking and elegant.
Birds help to keep ecosystems in balance.
White-rumped & Himalayan Vultures
Vultures, like these photographed at a "vulture restaurant" in Nepal, keep the landscape free of dead animal remains. Asian Vultures declined greatly in the 1990s due to certain veterinary drugs used in livestock. Fewer than 1% of the White-rumped Vultures remained. Now recovery is occurring in Nepal as captive-bred vultures are being released in safe zones free of poison.
Collared Owlet eating preying mantis
Birds benefit agriculture by comsuming vast quantities of insects and reducing the need for insecticides.
Oriental Pied Hornbill
Hornbills are major dispersers of seeds, thereby promoting reforestation. Asian Hornbills are suffering from poaching for their casques.
The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living beings breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.
William Beebe, The Bird, 1906
Seejan Gyawali
Madhyabindu Muncipality -1
Gudchari, Nawalparasi
Nepal
Phone: 977-984 808 5226
Dr. Lawrence Thompson
1069 Felicia Court
Livermore, California 94550
United States
Phone: 1-925-455-9473
Seejan Gyawali
Madhyabindu Muncipality -1
Gudchari, Nawalparasi
Nepal
Phone: 977-984 808 5226
Dr. Lawrence Thompson
1069 Felicia Court
Livermore, California 94550
United States
Phone: 1-925-455-9473
Chitwan National Park
