This was my first trip to Sikkim, and no surprises that I ended up with two dozen lifers. The trail to Goecha La goes through Khangchendzonga national park which has an unbelievably rich bird life.
Sunday, 22nd October, 2017
Sikkim - Oct 2017
Red-headed Bullfinch (Pyrrhula erythrocephala)
Large-billed Crow (Corvus macrorhynchos macrorhynchos)
Oriental Turtle Dove (Streptopelia orientalis)
Yellow-bellied Fantail (Chelidorhynx hypoxantha)
Snowy-browed Flycatcher (Ficedula hyperythra)
Rufous winged Fulvetta (Alcippe castaneceps)
White-browed Fulvetta (Fulvetta vinipectus)
Common Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus)
Black-faced Laughingthrush (Trochalopteron affine)
Yellow-billed blue, or gold-billed Magpie (Urocissa flavirostris)
Fire-tailed Myzornis (Myzornis pyrrhoura)
White-tailed Nuthatch (Sitta himalayensis)
Blood Pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus)
Snow Pigeon (Columba leuconota)
Olive-backed Pipit (Anthus hodgsoni)
Hodgson's Redstart (Phoenicurus hodgsoni)
Rufous Sibia (Heterophasia capistrata)
Green-tailed Sunbird (Aethopyga nipalensis)
Grey-crested Tit (Lophophanes dichrous)
Coal Tit (Periparus ater)
Bar-tailed or Himalayan Treecreeper (Certhia himalayana)
Greenish Warbler (Phylloscopus trochiloides)
Tickell's leaf Warbler (Phylloscopus affinis)
Ashy-throated Warbler (Phylloscopus maculipennis)
Whistler's Warbler (Seicercus whistleri)
Darjeeling Woodpecker (Dendrocopos darjellensis)
Winter Wren (Troglodytes hiemalis)
Blue-winged Minla (Actinodura cyanouroptera)
