Birds and animals sited
Paro Damji |
Oriental Turtle dove | Streptopelia orientalis | on wire on campsite lawn |
Gunyitsawa to Thangkathangka | White-winged redstart | Phoenicurus erythrogaster | three males moving slowly along Paro river (3000m) Tammy and Bruce |
Gunyitsawa to Thangkathangka | White-throated redstart | Phoenicurus schisticeps | one female along Paro river (3000m) Tammy and Bruce |
Gunyitsawa to Thangkathangka | Plumbeous water redstart | Rhyacornis fullginosus | male, Paro river, 3300m |
Gunyitsawa to Thangkathangka | red-throated flycatcher | Ficedula parva | one female - Paro river on log branch |
Thangkathangka to Jhangothang | Rufous-vented Tit | Parus rubidiventris | alpine meadow along headwaters of Paro river |
Thangkathangka to Jhangothang | Large-billed Crow | Corvus macrohynchos | foothills of Jhomalhari, along headwaters of Paro Chu (river), alpine meadow |
Thangkathangka to Jhangothang | Red-headed Bullfinch | Pyrrhula erythrocephala | |
Thangkathangka to Jhangothang | Hodgson's Redstart | Phoenicurus hodgsoni | female, broadleaf forest near river, 3800m |
Jhangothang | Golden Eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | four birds above headwaters of Paro Chu at bridge crossing over the Tshophu lake path, Yak herding area, alpine pasture |
Jhangothang | Himalayan Marmot | Marmota himalayana | alpine meadow, 4300m, many burrows and tunnels |
Jhangothang | Bhutanese mountain goat | viewed by another trekker | |
Jhangothang | Blue sheep (Bharal) | Pseudois nayaur | two herds about 40 seen by Wendy, 48 seen by Bryan 4450m, alpine pasture, near lake, high mountain ridge |
Punakha to Tashithang | Common Hoopoe | Upupa epops | 1500m near village, rice fields |
Punakha to Tashithang | Booted Eagle | Hieraaetus pennatus | 1500m near village, rice fields |
Tashithang to Damji | Spotted forktail | Enicurus immaculatus | forest stream near entrance to Gasa Natianal Park |
Tashithang to Damji | Slaty-blue flycatcher | Ficedula tricolor | |
Tashithang to Damji | Slender-billed scimitar babler | Xiphirhynchus superciliaris | near top of path, forest tangles |
Damji to Gasa | Rhesus Macaque | Macaca mulatta | large family of monkeys crossing gorge at suspension bridge |
Damji to Gasa | Chestnet crowned Warbler | Seivercus castaniceps | near camp, 2700m in low brush not far from stream |
Damji to Gasa | Grey treepie | Dendrocitta vagabunda | near camp |
Damji to Gasa | Blue Whistling thrush | Myophonus caeruleus | near stream at camp |
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