Himalayan Monal, the national bird of Nepal and state bird of Uttarkhand is found in the Himalayas. The males and females differ in their plumage sometimes difficult for the common man to say they belongs to the same species.
Himalayan Monal was a dream bird for me for years. I have personally tried to see these birds a few times and all I could manage was seeing the tail of a male Himalayan Monal bird from Nepal.
Well, that was a story now. In GIBT 2018 – CS we found around 50 of them if not more. We were also able to photograph them comparatively easily.