Identification, protection, and monitoring of Important Bird Areas (IBAs) is a major global conservation programme initiated by BirdLife International, and recognized and appreciated by many governments, NGOs, and conservationists. This book is an extension of the BNHS's IBA programme to identify the threatened and near threatened bird species in Uttarakhand and to recommend measures for their long-term protection.
Identification, protection, and monitoring of Important Bird Areas (IBAs) is a major global conservation programme initiated by BirdLife International, and recognized and appreciated by many governments, NGOs, and conservationists. This book is an extension of the BNHS's IBA programme to identify the threatened and near threatened bird species in Uttarakhand and to recommend measures for their long-term protection.
Asad R. Rahmani is currently Director of Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS). He has written more than 100 research papers for national and international journals, five books, and numerous popular articles and book reviews. He is Principal Investigator of many prestigious projects of the BNHS, including the Important Bird Area (IBA) Programme of BirdLife International and BNHS. He is the Executive Editor of the Journal of the BNHS and Editor of Hornbill and Mistnet. Dhananjai Mohan is a Chief Conservator of Forests, in the wildlife wing of the forest department of Uttarakhand. He has nearly three dozen publications on the biodiversity conservation of which half pertain to birds. He is a fellow of Leadership for Environment and Development (LEAD) programme initiated by the Rockefeller foundation and a recipient of Dr Sálim Ali national wildlife fellowship of MoEF in the year 2005.
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Preface Foreword Messages Acknowledgments Introduction Critically Endangered Himalayan Quail or Mountain Quail White-backed or Oriental White-rumped Vulture Slender-billed Vulture Red-headed or King Vulture Baer's Pochard Endangered Egyptian Vulture Black-bellied Tern Vulnerable Cheer Pheasant Western Tragopan Marbled Duck Long-tailed Duck Lesser White-fronted Goose Wood Snipe Lesser Adjutant Pallas's Fish-eagle Indian Spotted Eagle Eastern Imperial Eagle Greater Spotted Eagle Sarus Crane Indian Skimmer Great Slaty Woodpecker Grey-crowned Prinia Bristled Grassbird Yellow Weaver White-throated or Hodgson's Bushchat Near Threatened Satyr Tragopan Falcated Duck Ferruginous Duck Painted Stork Black-necked Stork Black-headed Ibis Spot-billed Pelican Oriental Darter Laggar Falcon Lesser Fish-eagle Pallid Harrier Cinereous Vulture River Lapwing Eurasian Curlew Black-tailed Godwit River Tern Yellow-rumped Honeyguide European Roller Great Hornbill Tyler's Leaf Warbler References Index
