The "Owl Festival 2016" day two also began with the Birding and nature walk. The bird watching group was guided by Som G.C., who has utmost knowledge about birds of Nepal. On this day we went to the trekking route of Tara Hill, Parche and were lucky to sight and hear some calls of thirty two beautiful species in a short time (two hours). 1. Greay headed warbler 2. Whiskered yuhina 3. Rufous sibia 4. Black bulbul 5. Blue whistling thrush 6. Bush warbler 7. Slaty headed parakeet 8. Grey-headed canary flycatcher 9. Golden bush robin 10. Green backed tit 11. Black throated sunbird 12. Hume's warbler 13. Black chinned babler 14. Tickle's leaf wabler 15. Aberrant bush warbler 16. White throated fantail 17. Himalayan blue tailed 18. Fire breasted flower pecker 19. Red bearded bullfinch 20. Oriental turtle dove 21. Himalayan bulbul 22.Chestnut crowned laughing thrush 23. Speckled wood pigeon 24. Comon hill patridge 25. Red vented Bulbul 26. Long tailed shrike 27. Bar throated siba 28. Blue winged minla 29. Ruby checked scimitar babler 30. Crimson breasted woodpecker 31. Large billed crow 32. Blue fronted redstart after the morning programme, this day included finals of the different games, whole lot of cultural shows from different villages of parche VDC which included Ghatu dance, Bhajan etc. Lakhe and Gaijatra dance (Newari cultural dance) were shown by a group from Pokhara.While these programmes were going onstage, owl face painting and owl nail art was running on the other side. Everyone seemed to be enjoying these activities. Then, conservation speech was conveyed by Mr. Raju Acharya, Co-ordinator of the Festival. There was also a flash mob conveying the message of conservation from my University. There was a cultural dance from a group of Japanese student's .The awards and prizes were distributed to conservationist (contribution on conservation), researcher (Research Grants on Owl research) and students during and at the end of the programme.


  P.S. You can read about the Festival and its day one on my previous report:- https://tunza.eco-generation.org/ambassadorReportView.jsp?viewID=14112&searchType=title&searchName=owl%20festival&pageNumber=1 https://tunza.eco-generation.org/ambassadorReportView.jsp?viewID=37779&searchType=&searchName=&pageNumber=1
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