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Ecology and Conservation of Wood Snipe Gallinago Nemoricola in Lauribina-Gosainkunda Area in Lamtang National Park, Nepal

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Ecology and Conservation of Wood Snipe Gallinago Nemoricola in Lauribina-Gosainkunda Area in Lamtang National Park, Nepal Ecology and Conservation of Wood Snipe Gallinago nemoricola in Lauribina-Gosainkunda area in Lamtang National Park, Nepal Report Submitted By Hari Basnet1, Mohan Bikram Shrestha2, Deelip Chand Thakuri1, Tejab Pun1, Romit Tamang3, Dhiraj Chaudhary3 1 Small Mammals Conservation and Research Foundation, 2. Bird Conservation Nepal; 3. Freelance nature Guide Report Submitted to Oriental Bird Club and Wader Quest June, 2020 1 Ecology and Conservation of Wood Snipe Gallinago nemoricola in Lauribina- Goshainkunda area in Lamtang National Park, Nepal Wood Snipe, which flush from the rhododendron scrub, fly towards the North giving a fraction of second to capture the species in Kharka near Buddha Mandir. In all sighting, when it flush, it produces the drumming sound and makes around 500m semi-circle (Photo by: Mohan Bikram Shrestha) Project Detail Project Title: Ecology and Conservation of Wood Snipe Gallinago nemoricola in Lauribina-Goshainkunda area in Lamtang National Park, Nepal Project Site: Goshainkunda and Associate lakes and Lauribina Area Project start & end: April 2019 to December 2019 Funding Organization: Oriental Bird Club and Wader Quest Grantee: Mr. Hari Basnet, Small Mammals Conservation and Research Foundation, Kathmandu Nepal Field Expedition Team: Mr. Hari Basnet, Mr. Mohan Bikram Shrestha, Romit (Kanchha) Tamang, Mr. Deelip Chand Thakuri, Mr. Tejab Pun and Mr. Dhiraj Chaudhary Cover Photo: Habitat of Wood Snipe in Lauribina area, Rhododendron scrub efflorescence in the area providing hide making difficulty in snipe detection. (Photo by Hari Basnet) Report Photo by: Hari Basnet (Except mentioned) 2 Acknowledgments: We would like to extend our esteemed acknowledgements to Oriental Bird Club for funding us this project. We are thankful to Wader Quest (Rick Simpson) to support us partially to conduct the second field in August. We like to thanks Bird Conservation Nepal for collaborating the project and providing technical research officer in both field. We are thankful to Department of National Parks and Wildlife Conservation (DNPWC), and Lamtang National Park for helping and supporting us by providing required research permissions to conduct this work. We are grateful to Mr. James Eaton who provided a photo to prepare the conservation awareness poster. We are thankful to Mr. Sagar Dahal and Sayam U. Chowdhury who help us to reach out to the partial support. Moreover, we are thankful to Dave Showler for the review of preliminary report and David Gonçalves and Carol Inskipp for providing guidance and support in the project. Moreover, we will like to thanks Chauri herders, local people for providing information and show keen towards one of the highest elevation bird survey in the world. 3 Contents Acknowledgments:....................................................................................................................................................... 3 List of Figures ............................................................................................................................................................... 5 Summary ........................................................................................................................................................................ 6 Background ................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Objectives ................................................................................................................................................................. 8 Materials and Methods ................................................................................................................................................ 9 Study Area ................................................................................................................................................................ 9 Survey Design: ....................................................................................................................................................... 10 Desktop review: ..................................................................................................................................................... 11 Call survey .............................................................................................................................................................. 11 Interview with the Local people: ........................................................................................................................ 11 Conservation Awareness: ..................................................................................................................................... 12 Community Awareness: ................................................................................................................................... 12 School Awareness Programme ....................................................................................................................... 12 Results and discussion: .............................................................................................................................................. 13 Status and Distribution ......................................................................................................................................... 13 Local people and Wood Snipe ............................................................................................................................ 15 Habitat of Wood Snipe:........................................................................................................................................ 16 Symbiotic relation-ship (Commensalism) between Wood Snipe and Chauri .............................................. 17 Nesting sites and selection: .................................................................................................................................. 20 Threats .................................................................................................................................................................... 20 Community Awareness......................................................................................................................................... 22 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................................. 27 Recommendation: ...................................................................................................................................................... 27 Reference ..................................................................................................................................................................... 28 Annex ........................................................................................................................................................................... 29 Photoplates ................................................................................................................................................................. 32 4 List of Figures Figure 1. Map of the study area showing grid of 500*500 m ........................................................... 10 Figure 2. A Wood Snipe distribution map in Lauribina and Gosainkunda and Associates lakes ............ 14 Figure 3. Feeding marking on the Chauri Dung by Wood Snipe ..................................................... 15 Figure 4 Heavy snowfall covers the whole habitat of Wood Snipe in Lauribina area (April, 2019). The snow remains for more than a month and local people believe that heavy snow is one of the prime reason for declining number of Wood Snipe (Photo by Romit Tamang) .................................................... 16 Figure 5 A habitat of Snipe covered by the rhododendron scrub and rock boulders, feeding ground for the Chauri during our survey in two different incidences Wood Snipe was flush from the same area .... 17 Figure 6 Two different flies feeding and laying eggs on the Chauri Dung (Left) and larvae developed after a week .................................................................................................................................. 18 Figure 7 Feeding Mark of Wood Snipe (left) and Himalayan Pheasant (right) .................................... 18 Figure 8 Habitat of Wood Snipe in Brana Area, alpine Meadow, and temporary Chauri shed along with Mt. Langtang Lirung (23,734 ft) in the horizon. ........................................................................... 19 Figure 9 Feathers collected form the nesting sites and dropping with feathers from Lauribina area ....... 20 Figure 10 Buddha mandir (13,877 ft) with temporary tea houses and shelter area during Janaipurnima festival .................................................................................................................................. 21 Figure 11 Conservation poster .................................................................................................. 22 Figure 12 Poster was released during the World Environment day in front of at least 2,000 people working in the Environment day. .............................................................................................. 23 Figure 13 Information sharing and distribution of Poster to the staff of Lamtang NP ........................ 23 Figure 14 Door-to-door conservation awareness
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