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ARIF AMIN I GHULAM RASOOL I FAKHR E ALAM

Birds of PakistanA Pictorial Glimpse of Natural Heritage

A tribute to the birds of Pakistan Dedicated to bird lovers anywhere

and everywhere in the world

Birds of PakistanA Pictorial Glimpse of Natural Heritage

Preface

Infor

PhotographyGhulam Rasool I Arif Amin I Fakhr e Alam

Photo EditingGhulam Rasool

Graphic DesignFakhr e Alam

ResearchUmbreen Arif

Project Directed byArif AminT: +92 300 8544672E: [email protected]

Original Edition 2016Number of copies 1,500

All Images © 2016 by the photographers unless otherwise specifiedAll rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means – photographic, electronic or mechanical or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright holder.

ISBN 978-969-23111-0-6

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Printed in Pakistan by TOPICAL PRINTERS

ARIF AMIN

Pakistan is an amazing country with diverse geography, climate and culture. This diversity is reflected in the way humans, animals and plants inhabit this beautiful country in its deserts, forests, plains, rivers, lakes and mountains. The birdlife is also very rich and diverse because of the topography and the variety of natural habitats offered to them. This book is an attempt to capture the beauty and glory of birds in their natural habitats, as well as their visiting places across Pakistan. Each photograph is a tribute to their freedom and splendor.

The opportunity to experience the rich diversity of Pakistan, during my childhood and my professional career, developed my love and fascination for nature. I was also lucky to have jobs that required extensive travel across Pakistan. However, the intense pleasure in watching and photographing wildlife, particularly birds, started many years ago, when I first visited Deosai Plains in Gilgit-Baltistan. I was amazed by the vast expanse of land covered with millions of flowers and the colorful birds freely flying among them. My initial attempts of photographing those birds with a small 4 megapixel camera were very dismal. However, over the last ten years, my treks to reach the birds and the technology to capture them have vastly improved. I have sought them in the plains of Punjab, the hills and mountains of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and in the high pastures of Azad Jammu & Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan and a few attempts on the shores and lakes of Sindh and Balochistan along the Arabian Sea. My wife, Umbreen, an active partner in these journeys as a companion, nature lover and a bird spotter, has always encouraged and supported me to present my collection in the form of a book.

During one of our bird watching treks more than five years ago, I met Ghulam Rasool, who has since become my teacher and mentor. Our mutual passion for birds is displayed in this book which is a first attempt of its kind in the country. GR, as he is known among fellow photographers and nature lovers, is an accomplished photographer who not only carved a niche in photographing birds but pioneered the art of wildlife photography in Pakistan as well. His work has been featured in prestigious publications both nationally and internationally. GR has also worked as a professional wildlife photographer with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to implement the Pakistan Wetlands Programme. He captured digital images of Pakistan’s diversity from salt marshes and the marine wetlands of the Makran Coast to the icy alpine lakes of the Hindukush, Himalayas and the Karakoram Cordilleras. He has also displayed his collections in a recent exhibition “My Eyes are Witness” at Asia House, London, UK.

Fakhr e Alam, the third member of our team, is a professional graphic designer, nature lover and an enthusiast traveller and photographer. He has designed a number of publications for WWF Pakistan during his stint in the organization as a graphic designer.

This book is our combined effort to document not only the beauty of birds present in Pakistan but also where they were captured on camera and the time of the year they visited that place. This, we hope will provide knowledge about their presence and activity to people and will help develop a respect for their lives and their habitats. We are extremely thankful to Engro Foods Limited in supporting the publication of this book and enabling us to share our love for birds and our first step towards awareness and conservation of nature and wildlife in Pakistan.

Introduction

Arif Amin has been working for more than twenty years on education policy and reforms with international development partners, private organizations and NGOs to support and guide public education service delivery. Arif is an ardent traveller, birder, and nature & wildlife photographer. He has travelled extensively across Pakistan and has photographed more than 300 bird species in the past ten years. He lives in Islamabad and is working as a freelance consultant.

Ghulam Rasool is a professional fine art nature photographer. He has been interested in photography since his childhood, however, started this more professionally after joining World Wide Fund for Nature in 2005 as wildlife photographer. Since then, he has extensively worked on biodiversity and landscapes of Pakistan while in the field. He is presently living in UK and is a freelance consultant.

Fakhr e Alam is a nature lover, traveller and photographer by profession. He is a graphic designer but has extensive experience of wildlife and conservation due to his involvement with World Wide Fund for Nature Pakistan as Graphic Designer and Nature Photographer. Fakhr has also worked as Graphic Designer/visualizer at Inkpot Graphics Brooklyn, NY, USA. He presently lives in Abbottabad and is working as a freelance consultant.

From the world’s biggest permanent freshwater glacier Baltoro (Gilgit-Baltistan) to the hot deserts of Thar (Sindh) and Makran Coastline (Balochistan), Pakistan with approximately 800,000 km2 area, is the only country in the world with the most altitudinal variation. K-2, the second highest mountain (8,611m) in the Karakorum Range, in the north of the country and more than 1,000 kilometers long coastline in the south are two extremes. This huge variation in topography within approximately 2,600 kilometers from the northern tip of the country to the southern border reflects unique flora and fauna as well as geography, cultures and people, and therefore, makes this land an aspiring and challenging place for explorers and nature lovers.

Pakistan is home to an impressive number of bird species. More than 780 species have been recorded so far. These include permanent residents that stay all year long, others that come to breed and raise their young ones, wintering birds that spend most of the winter season in Pakistan and migratory birds that pass through in spring and autumn along the Indus Basin which has been referred to as one of the world’s greatest flyways for migratory birds. The many canals, irrigation channels and lakes around the Indus Basin offer a large landscape to bird watchers and wildlife photographers.

This book is an attempt to capture the diversity of birds across Pakistan. The selected bird photographs provide altitudinal as well as geographic diversity and represent all the provinces and main areas in Pakistan. The photographs have been grouped according to their families, following, to some extent, the sequence given in the “Birds of Pakistan” - Helm Field Guides. Each photograph was taken in the bird’s natural environment and carries information of the place and time of the year. The book carries a total of 121 photographs of birds, representing 93 species. The book opens with the first photograph of Chukar (Alectoris chukar), the national bird of Pakistan. It also includes photographs of three globally threatened species – Greater Spotted Eagle, Sociable Lapwing and Jerdon’s Babbler. These are among the 29 globally threatened species in Pakistan, which if remain unprotected, may not be sighted by our future generations.

With a rapidly growing use of land for humans, whether for industry, agriculture, housing societies or entertainment, the natural habitats for birds are rapidly changing and disappearing. The unchecked and brutal bird hunting may also be contributing to the rapid reduction in the number of migratory birds and change in their routes of travel. We hope that this book will make people fall in love with the birds in the same way as we have and will contribute in the preservation of natural habitats and champion the right of birds to fly and sing without fear. We apologize to the birds not included in this book and hope that future publications will cover the ones missed from this book.

Our team

07BIRDS OF PAKISTAN06 BIRDS OF PAKISTAN

SEE-SEE PARTRIDGE Ammoperdix griseogularisTorghar Mountains, Torghar, BalochistanMay, 2009

CHUKAR Alectoris chukarHushe, Ghanche, Gilgit-BaltistanOctober, 2011

a1

a2

BLACK FRANCOLIN Francolinus francolinusNara Canal Wetlands, Sukkur, SindhFebruary, 2008 female

male

Margalla Hills, Islamabad, ICTMarch, 2013

KALIJ PHEASANT Lophura leucomelanos

Margalla Hills, Islamabad, ICTApril, 2011

a

2

1

10 BIRDS OF PAKISTAN

a2

a1

Marala headworks, Sialkot, PunjabJune, 2014

1

2

PHEASANT-TAILED JACANA Hydrophasianus chirurgusKamoke, Gujaranwala, PunjabAugust, 2012

a

b

a

RED-CRESTED POCHARD Netta rufinaChashma Barrage, Mianwali, PunjabNovember, 2011

b

COMMON REDSHANK Alectoris chukar Broghil Valley, Chitral, Khyber PakhtunkhwaJuly, 2010

a


EURASIAN SPOONBILL Platalea leucorodiaNagar Parkar, Tharparkar, SindhFebruary, 2012

EURASIAN CURLEW Numenius arquataKeti Bandar, Thatta, SindhFebruary, 2011

BAR-HEADED GOOSE Anser indicusMarala Headworks, Sialkot, PunjabJanuary, 2012

MALLARD Anas platyrhynchosKhairpur Juso, Larkana, SindhNovember, 2011

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GREAT CORMORANT Phalacrocorax carboKhairpur Juso, Larkana, SindhJanuary, 2008

SOCIABLE LAPWING Vanellus gregariousAgore, Hingol National Park, BalochistanNovember, 2006


a1

a2

b1

b2

a

BLACK-RUMPED FLAMEBACK Dinopium benghalense

Raiwind, Lahore, PakistanJune, 2012

a

male

femaleLahore City, Lahore, PunjabApril, 2011

1

2

SCALY-BELLIED WOODPECKER Picus squamatus

Gilgit City, Gilgit, Gilgit-BaltistanAugust, 2013

b

SPECKLED PICULET Picumnus innominatusKhariyan, Haripur, Khyber PakhtunkhwaJune, 2013

a

female

male

Margalla Hills, Islamabad, ICTFebruary, 2015

2

1

a

b c

ROSE-RINGED PARAKEET Psittacula krameriLahore City, Lahore, PunjabApril, 2008

c

COMMON HOOPOE Upupa epopsLahore City, Lahore, PunjabApril, 2008

b

ROSE-RINGED PARAKEET & COMMON HOOPOELahore City, Lahore, PunjabApril, 2008

a GREAT BARBET Megalaima virensChangla Gali, Abbottabad, Khyber PakhtunkhwaMay, 2012


GREEN BEE-EATER Merops orientalisNara Canal Wetlands, Khairpur, SindhJanuary, 2009

BLUE-TAILED BEE-EATER Merops philippinusChotiari Wetlands, Sanghar, SindhJune, 2008

INDIAN COURSER Cursorius coromandelicusKinjhar Lake, Thatta, SindhOctober, 2008


c

a

b

PIED CUCKOO Clamator jacobinusRawal Lake, Islamabad, ICTJuly, 2013

c

SIRKEER MALKOHA Phaenicophaeus leschenaultiaMargalla Foothills, Islamabad, ICTDecember, 2013

b

COMMON HAWK CUCKOO Hierococcyx variusMargalla Foothills, Islamabad, ICTMarch, 2015

a

PLUM-HEADED PARAKEET Psittacula cyanocephalaMargalla Hills, Islamabad, ICTJune, 2014

SLATY-HEADED PARAKEET Psittacula himalayanaKaghan Valley, Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa January, 2015


d2

b

d1

a

c

SINDH NIGHTJAR Caprimulgus mahrattensisChotiari Wetlands, Sanghar, SindhOctober, 2008

b

Quetta City, Quetta, BalochistanOctober, 2014

LITTLE OWL Athene noctuaBroghil Valley, Chitral, Khyber PakhtunkhwaOctober, 2014

c

COLLARED SCOPS OWL Otus bakkamoenaKhariyan, Haripur, Khyber PakhtunkhwaNovember, 2012

d

1

2

SPOTTED OWLET Athene bramaRawal Lake, Islamabad, ICTDecember, 2014

a


c

b

a

LAUGHING DOVE Streptopelia senegalensisMargalla Foothills, Islamabad, ICTApril, 2015

c

YELLOW-FOOTED GREEN PIGEON Treron phoenicopteraLawrence Garden, Lahore, PunjabMarch, 2015

b

ROCK PIGEON Columbal liviaLahore City, Lahore, PunjabJune, 2012

a


LICHTENSTEIN’S SANDGROUSE Pterocles lichtensteiniiKirthar National Park, Karachi, SindhDecember, 2009

a1

a2

CHESTNUT-BELLIED SANDGROUSE Pterocles exustus

Nagar Parkar, Tharparkar, SindhJanuary, 2009

amale

male & femalesKirthar National Park, Karachi, SindhDecember, 2009

1

2

RUDDY SHELDUCK Tadorna ferrugineaMangla Lake, Mirpur, Azad Jammu & KashmirJanuary, 2009

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a

b

SLENDER-BILLED GULL Larus geneiMangla Lake, Mirpur, Azad Jammu & KashmirJanuary, 2010

b

SANDWICH TERN Sterna sandvicensisa


Astola Island, Gwader, BalochistanOctober, 2008

GREATER SPOTTED EAGLE Aquila clangaKirthar National Park, Karachi, SindhFebruary, 2011

STEPPE EAGLE Aquila nipalensisRawalakot, Poonch, Azad Jammu & KashmirApril, 2010

STEPPE EAGLE Aquila nipalensisKirthar National Park, Karachi, SindhFebruary, 2011


a1

a2 a3

COMMON KESTREL Falco tinnunculusMargalla Foothills, Islamabad, ICTDecember, 2014

a

Margalla Foothills, Islamabad, ICTDecember, 2014

Fairy Meadows, Diamer, Gilgit-BaltistanJuly, 2014

2

3

1

OSPREY Pandion haliaetusKeenjhar Lake, Thatta, SindhFebruary, 2011

b

b

WHITE-EYED BUZZARD Butastur teesaMurree Forest, Rawalpindi, PunjabJune, 2009

LONG-LEGGED BUZZARD Buteo rufinusRaiwind, Lahore, PunjabJanuary, 2008


a

b

a1

a2

ALPINE CHOUGH Pyrrhocorax graculusHoper Valley, Nagar, Gilgit-BaltistanOctober, 2009

a

RED-BILLED CHOUGH Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocoraxKhunjerab, Upper Hunza, Gilgit-BaltistanMay, 2006

b

EURASIAN JACKDAW Corvus monedulaBalakot, Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Balakot, Mansehra, Khyber PakhtunkhwaApril, 2015

April, 2014

a1

2

YELLOW-BILLED BLUE MAGPIE Urocissa flavirostrisBanjosa Lake, Poonch, Azad Jammu & Kashmir April, 2010

BROWN DIPPER Cinclus pallasiiBahrain, Swat, Khyber PakhtunkhwaNovember, 2010


a3

a1

a2

LONG-TAILED MINIVET Pericrocutus ethologus

Khariyan, Haripur, Khyber PakhtunkhwaDecember, 2013

a

male

male

Nathia Gali, Abbottabad, Khyber PakhtunkhwaApril, 2014

2

3

1

femaleKaghan Valley, Mansehra, Khyber PakhtunkhwaApril, 2014


a5a4

a3

a2

a1

ASIAN PARADISE-FLYCATCHER Terpsiphone paradisi

Salt Range, Chakwal, Punjab

Salt Range, Chakwal, Punjab

June, 2011

June, 2011

a

male & female

male

2

3,4

1

male Kaghan Valley, Mansehra, Khyber PakhtunkhwaOctober, 2012

maleMargalla Hills, Islamabad, ICTMay, 2014

5

a2

a1

b

VERDITAR FLYCATCHER Eumyias thalassinaKaghan Valley, Mansehra, Khyber PakhtunkhwaApril, 2014

a

Margalla Foothills, Islamabad, ICTMay, 2015

2

1

ULTRAMARINE FLYCATCHER Ficedula superciliarisShogran, Mansehra, Khyber PakhtunkhwaMay, 2012

b

a1

a2 b

CHESTNUT THRUSH Turdus rubrocanusShogran, Mansehra, Khyber PakhtunkhwaAugust, 2014

a

Margalla Hills, Islamabad, ICTFebruary, 2014

1

2

BLUE WHISTLING THRUSH Myophonus caeruleusBanjosa Lake, Poonch, Azad Jammu & KashmirApril, 2010

b


a1

a2

BLUE ROCK THRUSH Monticola solitariusMargalla Foothills, Islamabad, ICTApril, 2015

a

Jalkhad, Mansehra, Khyber PakhtunkhwaJuly, 2014

2

1

BLUE-CAPPED ROCK THRUSH Monticola cinclorhynchusKhariyan, Haripur, Khyber PakhtunkhwaMay, 2013

SCALY THRUSH Zoothera daumaKhariyan, Haripur, Khyber PakhtunkhwaJanuary, 2015

RUFOUS-TAILED ROCK THRUSH Monticola saxatilisCholistan Desert, Bahawalpur, PunjabOctober, 2003


RUSTY-CHEEKED SCIMITAR BABBLER Pomatorhinus erythrogenysMargalla Hills, Islamabad, ICTMay, 2013

JERDON’S BABBLER Chrysomma altrostreIndus River, Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa April, 2009


c d

a b

ROFOUS-BACKED REDSTART Phoenicurus erythronotaQuetta City, Quetta, BalochistanFebruary, 2014

a BLUE-FRONTED REDSTART Phoenicurus frontalisKhaplu, Ghanche, Gilgit-BaltistanNovember, 2011

cORANGE-FLANKED BUSH ROBIN Tarsiger cyanurus (female)Khaplu, Ghanche, Gilgit-BaltistanNovember, 2011

b SIBERIAN STONECHAT Saxicola maurus indicusKaghan Valley, Mansehra, Khyber PakhtunkhwaApril, 2015

d

a

b

c

PIED BUSHCHAT Saxicola caprataMargalla Foothills, Islamabad, ICTMay, 2013

a

VARIABLE WHEATEAR Oenanthe picataNara Canal Wetlands, Khairpur, SindhJanuary, 2009

c

PIED WHEATEAR Oenanthe pleschankaSalt Range, Chakwal, PunjabDecember, 2011

b

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BAR-TAILED TREECREEPER Certhia himalayanaDonga Gali, Abbottabad, Khyber PakhtunkhwaJune, 2009

WALLCREEPER Tichodroma murariaMargalla Foothills, Islamabad, ICTJanuary, 2015


b1a

cb2

d

EASTERN ROCK NUTHATCH Sitta tephronotaTorghar Mountains, Torghar, BalochistanMay, 2009

a

female

male

Shogran, Mansehra, Khyber PakhtunkhwaAugust, 2014

2

1

CHESTNUT-BELLIED NUTHATCH Sitta castanea

Khariyan, Haripur, Khyber PakhtunkhwaDecember, 2012

b

WHITE-CHEEKED TIT Aegithalos leucogenysMargalla Foothills, Islamabad, ICTJanuary, 2015

c

SPOT-WINGED TIT Parus melanolophusNathia Gali, Abbottabad, Khyber PakhtunkhwaApril, 2013

d


a

b

c

HORNED LARK Eremophila alpestrisShandur, Ghizer, Gilgit-Baltistan October, 2012

a

ASHY-CROWNED SPARROW LARK Eremopterix grisea (male)Margalla Foothills, Islamabad, ICTNovember, 2014

b

EURASIAN TREE SPARROW Passer montanusQuetta City, Quetta, BalochistanFebruary, 2014

c

73BIRDS OF PAKISTAN

a

c

b

e

d

CETTI’S BUSH WARBLER Cettia cettiLangh lake, Larkana, SindhJanuary, 2008

a

WHISTLER’S WARBLER Seicercus whistleriMargalla Foothills, Islamabad, ICTMarch, 2014

b

RUFOUS-VENTED PRINIA Prinia burnesiiIndus River, Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber PakhtunkhwaApril, 2009

c

RED-BILLED LEIOTHRIX Leiothrix lutaMargalla Foothills, Islamabad, ICTMarch, 2014

d

GREY-HOODED WARBLER Seicercus xanthoschistosMargalla Foothills, Islamabad, ICTMarch, 2014

e

a1

a3a2

January, 2015

SPOTTED FORKTAIL Enicurus maculatusKaghan Valley, Mansehra, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

LITTLE FORKTAIL Enicurus scouleriNeelum Valley, Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu & KashmirJuly, 2012

a

Kaghan Valley, Mansehra, Khyber PakhtunkhwaJanuary, 2015

2

3

1

Bagnotar, Abbottabad, Khyber PakhtunkhwaMarch, 2013

a

c

b

ROBIN ACCENTOR Prunella rubeculoidesHushe, Ghanche, Gilgit-BaltistanOctober, 2011

a

ROFOUS-BREASTED ACCENTOR Prunella strophiataKhariyan, Haripur, Khyber PakhtunkhwaDecember, 2015

b

ALPINE ACCENTOR Prunella collarisKaghan Valley, Mansehra, Khyber PakhtunkhwaJanuary, 2015

c

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b c1

c2

a

EURASIAN GOLDFINCH Carduelis carduelis (male)Khaplu, Ghanche, Gilgit-BaltistanOctober, 2011

b

CHAFFINCH Fringilla coelebs (male)Hanna Lake, Quetta, BalochistanMarch, 2014

a

Margalla Foothills, Islamabad, ICTApril, 2013

2

1

COMMON ROSEFINCH Carpodacus erythrinus (male) Naran, Mansehra, Khyber PakhtunkhwaSeptember, 2008

c

W

b2

b1

a

Kaghan Valley, Mansehra, Khyber PakhtunkhwaDecember, 2015

2

1

BRAMBLING Fringilla montifringilla (male)Kaghan Valley, Mansehra, Khyber PakhtunkhwaDecember, 2015

a

ORANGE BULLFINCH Pyrrhula aurantiacaKaghan Valley, Mansehra, Khyber PakhtunkhwaApril, 2014

b

83BIRDS OF PAKISTAN

“I want to sing like the birds sing, not worrying about who hears or what they think.” – Rumi

PhotographyGhulam Rasool I Arif Amin I Fakhr e Alam

Photo EditingGhulam Rasool

Graphic DesignFakhr e Alam

ResearchUmbreen Arif

Project Directed byArif AminT: +92 300 8544672E: [email protected]

Original Edition 2016Number of copies 1,500

All Images © 2016 by the photographers unless otherwise specifiedAll rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means – photographic, electronic or mechanical or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright holder.

ISBN 978-969-23111-0-6

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