Field notes from the ridges and streams around Ranikhet, Majkhali and Binsar: sightings, stories and what is happening to the birds.
A birder's encounter in Kumaon
Twenty minutes from Firwood Cottage, a pair of Cheer Pheasants stepped out of the grass just 40–50 feet away. A morning on the pine slopes of Ranikhet, and what threatens this bird.
Small-group guided birding around Ranikhet, in the Kumaon hills.