Subarna Raj Ghimire

Wildlife Research and Education Network

Wetlands support around 27% of birds in Nepal, however, there is a paucity of information about bird diversity and the wetland habitat of Western Chure Landscape Nepal. The “point count” method along transects was carried out to evaluate the species composition and habitat associations of birds. A total of 2,532 individuals representing 152 species...

Order of Lepidoptera and Odonata are colorful insects with varied morphological features which found hovering mainly over the forest, agricultural land, river and rivulets. Butterflies are scaly insects with terrestrial larval forms. Odonata have large eyes with aquatic larval form. The purpose of this research is to document the diversity of butte...

Anuran frogs are often considered generalist predators in rice fields and feed upon a variety of invertebrates. They may thus provide an invaluable ecosystem service, as many species belonging to the orders coleoptera, lepidoptera, orthoptera, homoptera and hemiptera are regarded as notorious rice pests, inflicting significant losses on rice produc...

A new species of the genus Tylototriton is described from eastern Himalaya based on molecular and morphological comparisons. The new species is diagnosable from the closely-related species by having light brown colouration in dorsal region in life, flat and blunt snout, greatly separated dorsolateral bony ridges on head and straight-thick tailfin....