# Ghamot National Park

The Ghamot National Park also spelt Gumot is a national park in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. It is located in Neelam District of AJK and it was established in 2004. Conservation efforts in the Gumot National Park are funded by the Global Environment Facility Small Grants Programme and implemented by the Himalayan Wildlife Foundation. The national park is significant as it hosts a connected population of the threatened Himalayan Brown Bear of Pakistan, connected through a network of national parks in northern Pakistan including the Deosai National Park and Musk Deer National Park. The park also hosts a population of the threatened musk deer.

## Fauna

List of fauna found in the national park.
| # | Name | Scientific name | Status | Breeding |
| 1 | Himalayan vulture | Gyps himalayensis | Rare | No |
| 2 | Golden eagle | Aquila chrysaetos | Rare | No |
| 3 | Eurasian sparrowhawk | Accipiter nisus | Rare | Yes |
| 4 | Bearded vulture | Gypaetus barbatus | Rare | No |
| 5 | Pallid harrier | Circus macrourus | Rare | No |
| 6 | Common swift | Apus apus | Common | Yes |
| 7 | Pacific swift | Apus pacificus | Common | Yes |
| 8 | Little swift | Circus macrourus | Common | Yes |
| 9 | Long-tailed minivet | Pericrocotus ethologus | Becoming rare | Yes |
| 10 | Rosy minivet | Pericrocotus roseus | Rare | Yes |
| 11 | Orange minivet | Pericrocotus flammeus | Common | Yes |
| 12 | Eurasian collared dove | Streptopelia decaocto | Rare | Yes |
| 13 | Red collared dove | Streptopelia tranquebarica | Rare | Yes |
| 14 | Spotted dove | Spilopelia chinensi | Rare | Yes |
| 15 | Rock dove | Columba livia | Common | No |
| 16 | Oriental turtle dove | Streptopelia orientalis | Rare | Yes |
| 17 | Yellow-billed blue magpie | Urocissa flavirostris | Rare | No |
| 18 | Spotted nutcracker | Nucifraga caryocatactes | Rare | Yes |
| 19 | Alpine chough | Pyrrhocorax graculus | Rare | No |
| 20 | Red-billed chough | Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax | Rare | No |
| 21 | Large-billed crow | Corvus macrorhynchos | Common | Yes |
| 22 | European roller | Coracias garrulous | Common | Yes |
| 23 | Indian roller | Coracias benghalensis | Rare | Yes |
| 24 | Grey-bellied cuckoo | Cacomantis passerines | Rare | Yes |
| 25 | Jacobin cuckoo | Tadorna tadorna | Rare | Yes |
| 26 | Asian koel | Eudynamys scolopacea | Rare | Yes |
| 27 | Plain prinia | Prinia inornata | Common | Yes |
| 28 | Zitting cisticola | Cisticola juncidis | Common | Yes |
| 29 | Himalayan prinia | Prinia criniger | Becoming rare | Yes |
| 30 | Common tailorbird | Orthotomus sutorius | Rare | No |
| 31 | Brown dipper | Cinclus pallasii | Rare | No |
| 32 | Bar-tailed treecreeper | Certhia himalayana | Rare | No |
| 33 | Eurasian treecreeper | Certhia familiaris | Common | No |
| 34 | Black drongo | Dicrurus macrocercus | Common | Yes |
| 35 | Ashy drongo | Dicrurus leucophaeus | Abundant | Yes |
| 36 | Scaly-breasted munia | Lonchura punctulata | Common | No |
| 37 | Rock bunting | Emberiza cia | Common | Yes |
| 38 | Crested bunting | Melophus lathami | Common | Yes |
| 39 | Chestnut-eared bunting | Emberiza fucata | Rare | Yes |
| 40 | Pine bunting | Emberiza leucocephalos | Common | Yes |
| 41 | White-capped bunting | Emberiza stewarti | Common | Yes |
| 42 | Streaked laughingthrush | Garrulax lineatus | Abundant | No |
| 43 | Variegated laughingthrush | Garrulax variegates | Rare | No |
| 44 | Spectacled finch | Callacanthis burtoni | Rare | Yes |
| 45 | Yellow-breasted greenfinch | Carduelis spinoides | Summer visitor | Yes |
| 46 | Common rosefinch | Carpodacus erythrinus | Common | Yes |
| 47 | Dark-breasted rosefinch | Carpodacus nipalensis | Common | Yes |
| 48 | Pink-browed rosefinch | Carpodacus rhodochrous | Common | Yes |
| 50 | Eurasian hobby | Falco subbuteo | Rare | No |
| 51 | Common kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | Becoming rare | Yes |
| 52 | Asian house martin | Delichon dasypus | Becoming rare | Yes |
| 53 | Sand martin | Riparia riparia | Rare | Yes |
| 54 | Barn swallow | Hirundo rustica | Rare | No |
| 55 | Great grey shrike | Lanius excubitor | Rare | Yes |
| 56 | Long-tailed shrike | Lanius schach | Common | Yes |
| 57 | Red-flanked bluetail | Tarsiger cyanurus | Rare | Yes |
| 58 | Plumbeous water redstart | Rhyacornis fuliginosus | Common | Yes |
| 59 | Spotted flycatcher | Muscicapa striata | Common | Yes |
| 60 | Verditer flycatcher | Eumyias thalassinus | Rare | Yes |
| 61 | White-capped redstart | Chaimarrornis leucocephalus | Rare | Yes |
| 62 | African stonechat | Saxicola torquata | Rare | No |
| 63 | Pied bush chat | Saxicola caprata | Becoming rare | No |
| 64 | Grey bush chat | Saxicola ferreus | Common | No |
| 65 | Chestnut-bellied rock thrush | Monticola rufiventris | Rare | Yes |
| 66 | Blue rock thrush | Monticola solitarius | Rare | Yes |
| 67 | Blue-capped rock thrush | Monticola cinclorhyncha | Rare | Yes |
| 68 | Himalayan rubythroat | Luscinia pectoralis | Rare | Yes |
| 69 | Spotted forktail | Enicurus maculatus | Common | Yes |
| 70 | Little forktail | Enicurus scouler | Rare | Yes |
| 71 | Kashmir flycatcher | Ficedula subrubra | Rare | Yes |
| 72 | Slaty-blue flycatcher | Ficedula tricolor | Rare | Yes |
| 73 | Little pied flycatcher | Ficedula westermanni | Rare | Yes |
| 74 | Common redstart | Phoenicurus phoenicurus | Abundant | Yes |
| 75 | Crested lark | Galerida cristata | Common | Resident |
| 76 | Indian paradise flycatcher | Terpsiphone paradisi | Rare | Yes |
| 77 | Wire-tailed swallow | Hirundo smithii | Scarce | Summer visitor |
| 78 | Blue-throated barbet | Psilopogon asiaticus | Rare | No |
| 79 | Great barbet | Megalaima virens | Rare | Yes |
| 80 | White wagtail | Motacilla alba | Rare | Yes |
| 81 | Upland pipit | Anthus sylvanus | Rare | No |
| 82 | Grey wagtail | Motacilla cinerea | Becoming rare | Yes |
| 83 | Citrine wagtail | Motacilla citreola | Rare | Yes |
| 84 | Western yellow wagtail | Motacilla flava | Rare | Yes |
| 85 | Eurasian golden oriole | Oriolus oriolus | Rare | No |
| 86 | Himalayan monal | Lophophorus impejanus | Rare | Yes |
| 87 | Koklass pheasant | Pucrasia macrolopha | Rare | Yes |
| 88 | Chukar partridge | Alectoris chukar | Rare | Yes |
| 89 | Himalayan snowcock | Tetraogallus himalayensis | Rare | Yes |
| 90 | Kalij pheasant | Lophura leucomelanos | Rare | Yes |
| 91 | Western tragopan | Tragopan melanocephalus | Rare | No |
| 92 | Great tit | Parus major | Becoming rare | Yes |
| 93 | Green-backed tit | Parus monticolus | Common | No |
| 94 | Fire-capped tit | Cephalopyrus flammiceps | Summer visitor | Yes |
| 95 | Black-crested tit | Parus melanolophus | Common | Yes |
| 96 | Rufous-naped tit | Parus rufonuchalis | Rare | Rare |
| 97 | Himalayan black-lored tit | Parus xanthogeny | Rare | Yes |
| 98 | House sparrow | Passer domesticus | Rare | Yes |
| 99 | Russet sparrow | Passer rutilans | Rare | Yes |
| 100 | Rose-ringed parakeet | Psittacula krameri | Rare | No |
| 101 | Alpine accentor | Prunella collaris | Common | Yes |
| 102 | Rufous-breasted accentor | Prunella strophiata | Common | No |
| 103 | Red-vented bulbul | Pycnonotus cafer | Rare | Yes |
| 104 | Black bulbul | Hypsipetes leucocephalus | Rare | Yes |
| 105 | Himalayan bulbul | Pycnontus leucogenys | Rare | Yes |
| 106 | Grey-hooded warbler | Seicercus xanthoschistos | Rare | Yes |
| 107 | Pallas's leaf warbler | Phylloscopus proregulus | Rare | No |
| 108 | Large-billed leaf warbler | Phylloscopus magnirostris | Rare | Yes |
| 109 | White-cheeked nuthatch | Sitta leucopsis | Rare | Yes |
| 110 | Tickell's leaf warbler | Phylloscopus affinis | Rare | Yes |
| 111 | Snow partridge | Lerwa lerwa | Rare | Yes |
| 112 | Common chiffchaff | Pucrasia macrolopha | Rare | Yes |
| 113 | Yellow-browed warbler | Phylloscopus inornatus | Common | Yes |
| 114 | Greenish warbler | Phylloscopus trochiloides | Becoming rare | Yes |
| 115 | Scaly-bellied woodpecker | Picus squamatus | Rare | Yes |
| 116 | Himalayan woodpecker | Dendrocopos himalayensis | Rare | Yes |
| 117 | Goldcrest | Regulus regulus | Rare | No |
| 118 | White-throated fantail | Rhipidura albicollis | Common | Yes |
| 119 | Brown wood owl | Strix leptogrammica | Rare | Yes |
| 120 | Asian barred owlet | Glaucidium cuculoides | Rare | No |
| 121 | Kashmir nuthatch | Sitta cashmirensis | Rare | Rare |
| 122 | Song thrush | Turdus philomelos | Rare | Yes |
| 123 | Tickell's thrush | Turdus unicolor | Rare | Yes |
| 124 | Mistle thrush | Turdus viscivorus | Rare | Yes |
| 125 | Eurasian hoopoe | Upupa epops | Rare | Yes |
| 126 | Common myna | Acridotheres tristis | Rare | Yes |
| 127 | Common starling | Sturnus vulgaris | Common | Yes |
| 128 | Indian white-eye | Zosterops palpebrosa | Abundant | No |