STATUS, DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT PREFERENCE OF HODGSON’S BUSHCHAT (SAXICOLA INSIGNIS) IN GRASSLAND OF SUKLAPHANTA WILDLIFE RESERVE OF FAR-WESTERN DEVELOPMENT REGION OF NEPAL Bhupendra Prasad Yadav Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Nepal Submitted to Oriental Bird Club (OBC), United Kingdom 2007 STATUS, DISTRIBUTION & HABITAT PREFERENCE OF HODGSON’S BUSHCHAT (SAXICOLA INSIGNIS) IN GRASSLAND OF SUKLAPHANTA WILDLIFE RESERVE OF FAR WESTERN DEVELOPMENT REGION OF NEPAL Researcher Bhupendra Prasad Yadav Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation, Nepal Email:
[email protected] [email protected] Cover Photo: Hodgson’s Bushchat by Vijay Cavalo Design and Layout: Pradip Saud Citation: Yadav, B.P.2007.Status, distribution & habitat preference of Hodgson’s Bushchat (Saxicola insignis) in Grassland of Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve of Far Western Development Region of Nepal. A report submitted to Oriental bird Club (OBC), UK. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all, I would like to give grateful thanks to the Oriental bird Club (Small Grant Program), U.K that provided me the grant to carry out the Hodgson’s Bushchat research in Suklaphanta Wildlife Reserve, Nepal. I am deeply indebted to Mr. David Buckingham, Mrs. Carol Inskipp and Dr. Hem Sagar Baral for their valuable help and suggestions and constructive comments at different stages were beneficial to make this report in this form. I would like to express my heartily thanks to Mrs. Carol Inskipp who helped me at different situation at different time. Her help is memorable and uncountable to me. I would like to give very cordial thanks to Mr. David Buckingham who helped me to construct a strong report by providing me suggestions, encouragement and fruitful analytical comments.