India GOBirds of Dehradun
Ruddy shelduck
Asan was designated Uttarakhand's first Ramsar site on 21 July 2020. It regularly supports roughly 2% of the ruddy shelduck's biogeographic population, which is part of why it qualified.
Tadorna ferruginea
Red-crested pochard
One of the species that make a single north Indian reservoir worth a winter morning; flocks build from November and disperse by March.
Netta rufina
Bar-headed goose
At Asan the January 2026 waterbird census counted 5,806 birds of 126 species and named the bar-headed goose among the key ones, alongside the greylag goose and common pochard.
Anser indicus
Northern pintail
When Asan became Uttarakhand's first Ramsar site in 2020, the northern pintail was one of the ducks named in the listing as relying on the wetland for wintering and rest on migration.
Anas acuta
Crested kingfisher
Found only along clean, fish-bearing mountain rivers, so its presence on a stretch of the Ganga says something about the water.
Megaceryle lugubris
Plumbeous water redstart
A reliable indicator of clean, fast water: where the bird is absent from a Himalayan stream, the stream has usually been altered.
Phoenicurus fuliginosus
Blue whistling thrush
Known in the hills as the whistling schoolboy, for a song that sounds exactly like someone idly whistling as they walk.
Myophonus caeruleus
Himalayan bulbul
The commonest garden bird of Indian hill towns, and usually the first species a visitor learns there.
Pycnonotus leucogenys
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