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Owl Festival-Day2

by | 19-03-2016 09:05


  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.
village
cultural dance

owl face paint

game
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