The Himalayan Monal (Lophophorus impejanus), state bird of Uttarakhand is also the national Nepal. conservation priority species due to nine coloured distributed throughout higher altitude Himalayas and bright feather, they have been exploited for feather as well meat purposes. This in its entire range because declining population anthropogenic threats. facing greatest threat extinction poachin...

Behavioural and physiological deficiencies are major reasons why reintroduction programmes suffer from high mortality when captive animals are used. Mitigation of these deficiencies is essential for successful reintroduction programmes. Our study manipulated early developmental diet to better replicate foraging behaviour in the wild. Over 2 years, we hand-reared 1800 pheasants (Phasianus colchi...

Ring-necked Pheasant (Phasianus colchicus) chicks exposed to a hen incubation vocalization during the final week of incubation showed stronger attraction to feeding and caution calls than expected by chance when tested one, three and five days post-hatching. Control chicks incubated in silence did not differ from chance in response to the caution call. Largest differences between experimental a...