Mussoorie

Birds of Mussoorie

The long blue tail crossing the road between deodars is the bird most visitors to Mussoorie remember, and it is entirely unbothered by the town.

Urocissa erythroryncha

Known in the hills as the whistling schoolboy, for a song that sounds exactly like someone idly whistling as they walk.

Myophonus caeruleus

Its call is one of the standard sounds of a Himalayan summer, and is often mistaken by visitors for a distant machine.

Psilopogon virens

The commonest garden bird of Indian hill towns, and usually the first species a visitor learns there.

Pycnonotus leucogenys

In Tibetan Buddhist practice Himalayan vultures are the working animals of sky burial.

Gyps himalayensis

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