birding
Baya Weaver
Ploceus philippinus
Nepali Name: बया तोपचरा (Baya Topchara)







Eurasian Sparrowhawk
Accipiter nisus
Nepali Name: वनबाज Banbaaj
White-throated Laughingthrush
Garrulax albogularis
Nepali Name: सोइरने तोरीगाँडा Soirane Torigada
Notes:
1. Lives in gangs that do not break up even during the breeding season.
2. One of the most common laughingthrush in the Kathmandu Valley along with the White-crested Laughingthrush and Striated Laughingthrush. The three species overlap in so many places that I wonder if there isn’t some differences in their preferred habitat?
3. Just like the other Laughingthrushes are the gangsters of Himalaya forests.