Male © Krishnan Sivasubramanian eBird S97287750 Macaulay Library ML 387597451
Female © Subhadeep Ghosh
Male © Rajesh Panwar
Female © Subhadeep Ghosh
Male © Arpit Bansal
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Female © Amlan Choudhury

Sclater's Monal Lophophorus sclateri

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Identification

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Large terrestrial bird of foothill and montane pine forests with extensive rhododendron ground cover. Male brilliantly colored but oddly vulturine in appearance, with a small peaked head and blue skin around the eye. Appears dark from a distance, with bronzed neck and orange-tipped white tail; closer looks reveal greenish-blue gloss on the wings. Female streaky brown with dark blue eye patch and white-tipped tail. Gives loud, bisyllabic raptor-like screams and babbling shrieks in alarm.

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