the region has a wide variety of birds, including peafowl, parrots, and thousands of immigrant birds, such as the siberian crane. other birds include pheasants, geese, ducks, mynahs, parakeets, pigeons, cranes (including the celebrated sarus crane), and hornbills. great pied hornbill, pallas's fishing eagle, grey-headed fishing eagle, red-thighed falconet are found in the himalayan areas. other birds found here are tawny fish owl, scale-bellied woodpecker, red-breasted parakeet, himalayan swiftlet, stork-billed kingfisher and himalayan or white-tailed rubythroat.