page_title: Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park
section_title: Birds
hierarchical_section_title: Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park / Natural history / Birds
caption_attribution_description: English: A male Rufous-necked Hornbill feeding at Nabji
context_page_description: Jigme Singye Wangchuck National Park covers an area of 1,730 square kilometres in central Bhutan. It protects a large area of the Black Mountains, a sub−range of the Himalayan Range System.
  The park occupies most of the Trongsa District, as well as parts of: Sarpang, Tsirang, Wangdue Phodrang, and Zhemgang Districts.
  The park is bound to the east by the Mangde Chhu, and reaches the Sankosh River−Punatsangchu basin to the west. Jigme Singye abuts Royal Manas National Park to the southeast.
  Along the border of the park from the north to the southeast run Bhutan's main east-west and north-south highways. It is also connected via biological corridors to other national parks in northern, eastern, central, and southern Bhutan. Habitats of the Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests ecoregion are protected within the park
context_section_description: 270 bird species have been recorded in the park. From the 270 recorded birds, eight are Globally threatened and thus fall under Schedule I of the FNCA, 1995. Phobjikha Valley, which falls in the buffer zone of the park is also a very important winter habitat for the migrating black-necked cranes. The park is also a very important habitat of the critically endangered white-bellied herons in Bhutan. Places such as Tingtibi and Nabji-Korphu is a very important habitat of the rufous-necked hornbill (Aceros nipalensis). The park is also a home to the populations of endangered great hornbill and wood snipe.
  Majority of the birds recorded in the park are altitudinal migrant species who uses the park as a seasonal migration route between their summer and winter habitats.
caption: A male rufous-necked hornbill feeding at Nabji
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