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Birds of the Kangchenjunga Landscape
Pratikshya
Kandel
ICIMOD
Research Associate
Khumaltar
Kathmandu
NP
977-1-5003222
Pratikshya.Kandel@icimod.org
http://www.icimod.org/
Pratikshya
Kandel
ICIMOD
Research Associate Biodiversity
Khumaltar
Kathmandu
NP
977-1-5003222
Pratikshya.Kandel@icimod.org
Kailash
Gaira
GB Pant National Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development (GBPNIHESD)
Programme Coordinator
Pangthang
Gangtok
Sikkim
IN
kgaira@gmail.com
http://gbpihed.gov.in/Contact_Us.html
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Yadav
Uprety
Research Centre for Applied Science and Technology (RECAST)
Programme Coordinator
Tribhuvan University, Kirtipur
Kathmandu
NP
yadavuprety@gmail.com
https://www.recast.edu.np/
contentProvider
2019-02-04
eng
This checklist contains a total of 618 bird species documented from the Kangchenjunga Landscape. This information has been collated from the country level feasibility assessment reports of Kangchenjunga Landscape prepared by the implementing partners in Bhutan, India and Nepal as well as from various literatures.
Birds
Biodiversity
Avifauna
Kangchenjunga Landscape
Eastern Nepal
Sikkim
North Bengal
India
Western Bhutan
HKH-bif
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The checklist contains the list of birds that are found in Bhutan, India and Nepal part of the Kangchenjunga Landscape.
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There are a total of 618 bird species belonging to 19 orders and 77 families. Passeriformes is the dominant order that constitutes 62% of the total records. Among the families, Muscicapidae is the most common and diversely represented family.
species
Aquila clanga
Greater Spotted Eagle
This database is created to provide open access data sets for both checklist and occurrence data to contribute interests of academic fraternity and informed decision making process.
This has been embedded as a part of the Regional Database Initiative with provision of periodic updates.
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Dr. Nakul
Chettri
ICIMOD
Programme Coordinator - Kangchenjunga Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative
Khumaltar
Kathmandu
NP
977-1-5003222
Nakul.Chettri@icimod.org
http://www.icimod.org/?q=11420
The database was created in excel sheet using secondary information collected from various literature and country level feasibility assessment reports of the Kangchenjunga Landscape. Scientific names of species, their families, orders, IUCN status, habitat and distribution etc were crosschecked with relevant literature for their accuracy.The data were then transformed into the Darwin Core Format.
The database contains list of birds from Bhutan, India and Nepal part of the Kangchenjunga Landscape. The database was created in 2017 following various literature and country level feasibility assessment reports of the Kangchenjunga Landscape.
The database was created using secondary information collected from various literature and country level feasibility assessment reports of the Kangchenjunga Landscape prepared by implementing partners in Bhutan, India and Nepal.
Scientific names of species, their families, orders, IUCN status, habitat and distribution etc were crosschecked with relevant literature for their accuracy.
Kangchenjunga Landscape Conservation and Development Initiative
Dr. Nakul
Chettri
pointOfContact
The Kangchenjunga Landscape encompasses the southern stretch of landscape surrounding Mt Kangchenjunga (8,586m), which spreads over diverse ecological zones in eastern Nepal, North Bengal and Sikkim in India, and western Bhutan.
The MacArthur Foundation, Austrian Development Fund and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
The database covers Bhutan, India and Nepal part of the Kangchenjunga Landscape. The KL Bhutan constitutes western part of Bhutan (Haa, Chukha, Samtse, Dagana and Paro dzongkhags), KL india constitutes North Bengal and Sikkim and KL Nepal covers Taplejung, Panchthar, Ilam and Jhapa districts of Nepal.
The database is primarily based on the desktop review. The data are collated from the country level feasibility assessment reports prepared by the implementing partners in Bhutan, India and Nepal as well from various related literature.
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dataset
ICIMOD (2018) Birds of the Kangchenjunga Landscape.
GBPNIHESD. (2014). Feasibility Assessment Report KL-India. Unpublished report. GB Pant National Institute of Himalayan Environment and Sustainable Development, Sikkim Unit, India.
RECAST (2014). Feasibility assessment report KL Nepal. Research Centre for Applied Science and Technology, Tribhuvan University. Kathmandu: Nepal
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