Birds from Nepal 1

For about two weeks of this Nepal trip I carried my heavy 500mm lens on my shoulder while trekking out of the High Himalayas into the hills. I had our guide Ram as an assistant and a very patient wife who enjoyed watching the birds through her binoculars. It was certainly not serious birding but just a gentle stroll, looking for birds on the way.
This is a selection of birds who were cooperative enough to let me take their picture. Roughly the list of species follows our trail down from about 4000m to the foothills around Pokhara

Thanks to Dr. Martin Gottschling, Büsum, who corrected some of my identification errors!
Steve Prior, Amelia, helped with the Striped Laughingthrush.

First some birds from the Muktinath Valley:

Long-tailed Shrike

Eurasian Cuckoo

Chukar

Variegated Laughingthrush

Red-billed Chough

Rock Bunting

 

Himalayan Griffon

The following birds I found farther down in the Kali Gandaki Valley.

 

Grey Bushchatm male

Male (red) Longtailed and Grey-chinned (yellow) Minivet

    

Rufous Sibia

Verditer Flycatcher

Besra (Sparrowhawk)

Common Rosefinch

Himalayan Bulbul

Pied Thrush, female

Black Bulbul

 

Spotted Dove

Long-tailed Shrike, tricolor form

Blue Whistling Thrush

White-rumped Munia

Himalayan Bulbul

Plumbeous Water Redstart

Black-throated Sunbird

Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker

Crimson Sunbird

Common Stonechat

Blue-capped Rock Thrush

female

Ashy Drongo

Green-backed Tit

Fire-breasted Flowerpecker

Rusty-flanked Treecreeper

Brown-throated Treecreeper

Stiped Laughingthrush
(Strophocincla lineata setafer)

Grey Bushchat, female and butterfly

Cinnamon Sparrow (Russet Sparrow)

Grey Wagtail

Olive-backed Pipit

Spot-winged Tit

Chestnut-tailed Minla

Stripe-throated Yuhina

Brown Parrotbill

Rufous-bellied Woodpecker, male

Rufous-bellied Woodpecker, female