Eaglenest or Eagle's Nest Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area of India in the Himalayan foothills of West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh. It conjoins Sessa Orchid Sanctuary to the northeast and Pakhui Tiger Reserve across the Kameng river to the east. Altitude ranges extremely from 500 metres (1,640 ft) to 3,250 metres (10,663 ft). See: Map 1, Topo map It is a part of the Kameng Elephant Reserve.
Eaglenest is notable as a prime birding site due to the extraordinary variety, numbers and accessibility of bird species there.
Eaglenest derives its name from Red Eagle Division of the Indian army which was posted in the area in the 1950s.
Eaglenest or Eagle's Nest Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected area of India in the Himalayan foothills of West Kameng District, Arunachal Pradesh. It conjoins Sessa Orchid Sanctuary to the northeast and Pakhui Tiger Reserve across the Kameng river to the east. Altitude ranges extremely from 500 metres (1,640 ft) to 3,250 metres (10,663 ft). It is a part of the Kameng Elephant Reserve.
Eaglenest is notable as a prime birding site due to the extraordinary variety, numbers and accessibility of bird species there.
Eaglenest derives its name from Red Eagle Division of the Indian army which was posted in the area in the 1950s
Birds
Eaglenest is well known as a major birding area.It is home to at least 454 species of birds including 3 cormorants, 5 herons, Black Stork, Oriental White (Black-headed) Ibis, 4 ducks, 20 hawks, eagles, kites, harriers and vultures, 3 falcons, 10 pheasants, junglefowl, quail, and peafowl, Black-necked Crane, 3 rails, 6 plovers, dotterels, and lapwings, 7 waders, ibisbill, Stone-Curlew (Eurasian Thick-knee), Small Pratincole, 2 gulls, 14 pigeons, 3 parrots, 15 cukoos, 10 owls, 2 nightjars, 4 swifts, 2 trogons, 7 kingfishers, 2 bee-eaters, 2 rollers, hoopoes, 4 hornbills, 6 barbets, 14 woodpeckers, 2 broadbills, 2 pittas, 2 larks, 6 martins, 7 wagtails, 9 shrikes, 9 bulbuls, 4 Fairy-bluebirds, 3 shrike, Brown Dipper, 3 accentors, 46 thrushes, 65 Old World flycatchers, 6 parrotbills, 31 warblers, 25 flycatcher[disambiguation needed]s, 10 tits, 5 nuthatches, 3 treecreepers, 5flowerpeckers, 8 sunbirds, Oriental White-eye, 3 bunting, 14 finches, 2 munia, 3 sparrows, 5 starlings, 2 orioles, 7 drongos, Ashy Woodswallow and 9 jays.The sanctuary has the distinction of having three tragopan species, perhaps unique in India.
Eaglenest is the site where Bugun Liocichla was first discovered in 1995 and again observed and described in 2006 by Vrushank Chaitanya.
Eaglenest is home to a wide variety of Herpetofauna including at least 34 species of amphibians, 24 species of snakes and 7 species of lizards including 3 geckos, 3 agamids and 4 skinks. Abor Hills Agama was rediscovered at Eaglenest after 125 years. Other rare species include Darjeeling False-wolfsnake which was only known to science through 5 specimens, Anderson's Mountain lizard, Günther's Kukri Snake, Common Slug Snake, and Keelback snakes which have not been definitively identified.
Mammals
Eaglenest is home to at least 15 species of mammals including the endangered Capped Langur, Bengal tiger, Asian Elephant, Red Panda, Asiatic Black Bear and the vulnerable, Arunachal Macaque and Gaur. It was here that a new taxon of primate was discovered in 1997 by noted primatologist of north-east India Dr Anwaruddin Choudhury [8] but he thought it to be a new subspecies of Tibetan or Pere David's macaque. It was described as a new species, i.e., Arunachal Macaque in 2004.The highest elevation, 11,000 ft that the wild Asian elephants
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