Dark-Breasted Rosefinch
Bengali: লালবুক টুটি
Scientific Name: Carpodacus Nipalensis
IUCN: Least Concern
Descriptions: Male: overall very dark with dark red breast-band and long thin slender bill. Forehead, supercilium, throat and belly are bright pink. Female: lacks supercilium, has unstreaked underparts, diffusely streaked mantle, buffish wing-bars, and tips to tertials and olive-brown rump and uppertail coverts.
Food: Diet poorly known, mostly small seeds and berries. Sometimes blosson, nectar and pollen.
Food: Mostly small seeds and berries, also takes blossom, pollen and nectar.
Habitat: Its natural habitats are boreal forests and subtropical and tropical high altitude shrubland. Breeds in high altitude shrubland.
Distribution: resident in Himalayas, also found in Nepal, Bhutan, China, Mayanmar, Pakistan, Thiland and Vietnam.
Jungle Owlet
Bengali: ছোটো কালপেঁচা
Scientific Name: Glaucidium Radiatum
IUCN: Least Concern
Descriptions: Contrasting rusty color of barring on primaries and secondaries, barring on upperparts narrowly spaced, barring below usually extend to include flanks and belly.
Food: Mainly Insects, small rodents,, Locusts, Grasshopper, Lizard, Snake, Frogs, Bird Eggs.
Habitat: Open tropical and Sub-tropical forests.
Distribution: Found South of Himalayas and some parts of Himalayas an elevation up-to 2000m. East to Bhutan.
Himalayan Bluetail/ Orange-Flanked Bush Robin
Bengali: হিমালয় ঝোপশ্যামা
Scientific Name: Tarsiger Rufilatus
IUCN: Least Concern
Descriptions: Similar in size and weight like common redstart. White throat, orange flanks, blue tail. Male has blue upperparts and breast sides. female has olive brown upper parts and breast sides.
Food: Insects, Spiders and Other small invertebrates in breeding seasons. They also feeds berries and seeds especially outside of the breeding seasons.
Habitat: Mixed conifer forest during breeding seasons. Often found in areas of old-growth spruce forests.
Distribution: Breeds in Himalayas and in winters South to NE hills.
Coppersmith Barbet
Bengali: বসন্ত বৌরি
Scientific Name: Megalaima Haemacephala
IUCN: Least Concern
Descriptions: Most widespread and common barbet. It has green with red head, yellow cheeks and yellow throat, grey and black streaked underparts.
Food: Banyan, peepul and other wild figs, various berries and occasionally insects
Habitation: It inhabits in gardens, groves and spares woodland. Most important is dead wood which is suitable for excavation of nests.
Habitation: is common in deciduous forests and open woodlands, countries with thickets, urban parks and gardens with fruiting trees. It is also found in mangroves' edges.
Distribution: Its ranges Indian-Subcontinent and South-East Asia.
Asian-Barred Owlet
Bengali: খুঁড়ুলে পেঁচা
Scientific Name: Glaucidium Cuculoides
IUCN: Least Concern
Descriptions: Lack contrasting rusty wing color, barring on upper parts more broadly spaced, barring on belly usually more broken, turning to streaking on lower flanks. Often waves tail from side to side. It has false eye spot the back of the head.
Food: Beetles, Grasshoppers and other large insects. Lizard, Mice and small birds also taken. Also observe Common Quail in the air Like Hawk.
Habitation: Its natural habitat is in temperate forests.
Distribution: Its ranges across North Central and Northeast India, Nepal, Bhutan, North Bangladesh and South-East Asia.
Blue-Throated Barbet
Bengali: নীলগলা বসন্তবৌরি, বড় বসন্ত বাউরি, বড় বসন্ত বাওড়ী বা ধনিয়া পাখি
Scientific Name: Psilopogon Asiaticus
IUCN: Least Concern
Descriptions: It is an Asian Barbet with aqua blue face and throat with distinct red crown extending up-to the nape and yellow patches on the crown. Overall Green.
Food: Fruits and insects.
Habitation: Its natural habitat is in evergreen forest, deciduous forests, gardens, cities with fruiting trees.
Distribution: Its range includes the Himalayan foothills in Northeast and Eastern India and well wooded areas.
Great Barbet
Bengali: Unknown
Scientific Name: Megalaima Virens
IUCN: Least Concern
Descriptions: A brightly colored barbet with a massive yellow bill with bristles at its base. Maroon-brown with violet blue-black head. Olive-brown, blue and yellow with a bright scarlet patch under the tail.
Food: Mainly takes wild fruits. Figs, berries, wild plums, flowers, buds and seeds are their primary food but occasionally they also eat a wide range of insects.
Habitat: The great barbet is a resident breeder in the lower-to-middle altitudes of the Himalayas, ranging across northern India, Nepal and Bhutan, Bangladesh and some parts of Southeast Asia where it inhabits foremost forests up to 3,000 m altitude.
Distribution: Native to the Indian sub-continent and Southeast Asia.
Blue-Fronted Redstart
BLUE-FRONTED REDSTART (Left: Male Right:Female)Bengali: নীলকপালি গির্দি
Scientific Name: Phoenicurus frontalis
IUCN: Least Concern
Descriptions: Male is unmistakable, with his orange breast, belly, and tail and ultramarine-blue head and back. Female is brown with no wing-bars and an orange tail and lower belly; watch out for the unique upside-down black ‘T’ on her tail.
Food: Mainly eat insects, berries, fruits, and seeds.
Habitat: Its natural habitat is temperate forests.
Distribution: Its range includes the northern regions of the Indian Subcontinent and parts of Southeast Asia.
Blue Whistling Thrush
Bengali: নীল শিসদামা
Scientific Name : Myophonus Caeruleus
Conservation Status : Least Concern
Description : Dark purple with tiny silvery spots on head, back, and wings. Bill color varies with range: dark in central and eastern China and parts of mainland Southeast Asia, bright yellow in populations elsewhere. Frequently fans tail while standing on an exposed perch such as a waterside rock or overhanging branch. True to its name, it does whistle: a long piercing note that carries well over the sound of rushing water.
Food : They feed on fruits, earthworms, insects, crabs and snails. Snails and crabs are typically battered on a rock before feeding. In captivity, they have been known to kill and eat mice and in the wild have been recorded preying on small birds.
Habitat : In temperate forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Distribution : They make altitudinal movements in the Himalayas, descending in winter.
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