Himalayan Natural Bird Watching Tour
18 Nights/19 Days
Bhutan has a total land area of 46,500 square kilometers and an
impressive diversity of plant, animal and bird species. The country’s
rich biological diversity is the result of its unique geographical
location in the eastern Himalayas, within an area that extends through
both the Indo-Malayan (oriental) and thee Palearctic bio-geographic
regions; its annual rainfall, which is significantly higher than in the
western Himalayas; and its considerable altitudinal variation, from 200
meters in the South to over 7,000 meters in the north.
Among the country’s threatened birds are the Blyth’s Tragopan and the
Black necked crane. The country still has much of its original forest
cover.
About 60% of Bhutan is forested, ranging from moist tropical evergreen
and semi-evergreen forests in the south to temperate of missed Oakland
conifers and sub-alpine forests of fir, spruce, juniper, larch and
birch in the north.
Because of its unique setting and relatively un-exploited environment,
Bhutan probably possesses the greatest biological diversity of any
country of its size in Asia. It certainly contains some of the best
remaining representatives of habitat types found in the Himalayas.
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