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Arka Sarkar
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Birdwatcher, Birding Tour Leader, Software Geek, Avid Reader, Coffee Connoisseur
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Aug 27, 2021
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White-rumped Snowfinch
Cold desert around Gurudongmar. North Sikkim
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White-rumped Snowfinch (Onychostruthus taczanowskii) is one of the two species of Snowfinches that can be seen reliably in India only in the Tibetan Plateau region of North Sikkim, generally above 4500 meters (the other being Rufous-necked Snowfinch)
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Aug 21, 2021
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Here is a Ground Tit, alongside a yak dung pat, from the cold plateau around Gurudongmar, North Sikkim.
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Dung of large herbivores, particularly that of Domestic Yak has an important place in the grassland ecology of this high plateau. Dungs increases the abundance of arthropods particularly the larvae of coleopteran beetles which are consumed by a number of species of birds.