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Field notes from the ridges and streams around Ranikhet, Majkhali and Binsar: sightings, stories and what is happening to the birds.

Male Cheer Pheasant on a road divider near Ranikhet

The Cheer Pheasants of Ranikhet

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.

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