Profile
In flight
Game Birds
Himalayan Monal
Lophophorus impejanus
- mythic
- 82 km/h
- Least Concern
Nepal's national bird, the Danphe, lit from within like stained glass dragged across the snowline. A walking aurora that prefers to stay just above the treeline.
- Population
- large but locally declining from poaching and habitat loss; no precise global figure
- Habitat
- high-altitude Himalayan oak and conifer forest, alpine meadows and rhododendron scrub between roughly 2,400 and 4,500 meters
- Diet
- tubers, roots, bulbs, shoots, seeds, berries, insects, grubs
- Size
- 0.7 m
- Wingspan
- 0.8 m
