Tag Archive for: Bhutan
The Old Lady at the Monastery, by Shirren Lim
I met this old lady while visiting the Gangtey Gompa Monastery in Phobjekha district Bhutan. It was a quiet morning. All the monks at the monastery were away attending a festival. She was one of the handful of people at the monastery. She had…
Coal Tit by Saniar Rahman Rahul
This Angry Birds look-alike is a small bird named Coal tit. It is barely more than 11.5cm in length and is a passerine bird in the tit family Paridae. Coal tit is a common resident above the subtropical zone, at about 3,000-3,800m, and found…
Rufous Sibia, by Saniar Rahman Rahul
In the beautiful clam forests of the Lower to Middle Himalayas, you can find a bird named Rufous Sibia, very small in size but elegant with color. It is from the the Timaliidae family and feeds on berries and insects. I took this photograph…