4/30/2023 0 Comments Monal himalayan![]() ![]() 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 monal. Craig Brelsfordĭaniel Bengtsson served as chief ornithological consultant for Craig Brelsford’s Photographic Field Guide to the Birds of China, from which this species description is drawn. The Himalayan monal, also called Impeyan monal and Impeyan pheasant, is a pheasant native to Himalayan forests and shrublands at elevations of 2,1004,500 m. VOICE Sharp, curlew-like whistle from exposed rock. BARE PARTS Feet grey in male, horn-grey in female bill grey. Lacks white on back but has white U-shaped stripe on uppertail coverts and a very thin white tail tip. Female distinguished from female Chinese Monal by short crest, more extensive and contrasting all-white throat patch, and more uniformly brown ground color (less black) with more extensive buff streaking. lhuysii by blue orbital skin that encircles eye and olive-green hue to golden mantle. ID & COMPARISON Like other male monals, male has iridescent, multi-colored plumage unlike other male monals, has wiry, spatulate-tipped crest and entirely rufous tail. Male performs courtship display dance with raised wings and tail. HABITAT & BEHAVIOR In summer on rocky slopes above timberline, to 4500 m (14,760 ft.) winter in open coniferous and broadleaved forests, to 2100 m (6,890 ft.). from publication: Survey of Western Tragopan, Koklass Pheasant, and Himalayan Monal. ![]() For this reason, the Himalayan region remains ‘geologically active’ and is highly prone to earthquakes, and other natural disasters from time to time.Himalayan Monal Lophophorus impejanus occurs across Himalayas, from Afghanistan to Burma. Download scientific diagram Himalayan Monal Lophophorus impejanus. Its population is estimated to be around 10000. Restricted to Arunachal in the Indian side. It is a high altitude bird, rarely come down below 1,500 metre. Geologists believe that the Indo-Australian Plate is still being continuously forced underneath the Tibetan Plateau, which is leading to the rise of the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas at a rate of 5mm per annum. Sclater’s Monal is an endemic bird of Eastern Himalaya, mostly recorded at the junction of India, Myanmar, Tibet and Yunnan province of China. In due course, the Tethys Sea completely narrowed and its sea bottom was pushed upwards by the subducting Indo-Australian Plate, leading to the formation of the Tibetan Plateau and the mighty Himalayan Mountain ranges. The Indo-Australian Plate eventually collided with the Eurasian Plate between 40 and 50 million years ago. The increased compressive forces led to the upliftment of the masses of rocks from the deep depths. This fast-moving Indo-Australian Plate started gradually compressing the Tethys Sea. ![]() The Gondwana supercontinent began to break up about 180 million years ago, and the Indo-Australian Plate began to move in the northeastward direction towards the Eurasian Plate. About 201 to 145 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period, the entire southern fringe of Eurasia was bordered by the Tethys Ocean. It is believed that over the past 65 million years, several worldwide plate-tectonic events have led to the movement of the Earth’s crust to form a vast number of mountain ranges. Geology Of The Himalayas Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain is located in the Himalayas. ![]()
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