A team of Indian researchers have spotted ‘three-banded rosefinch’- a new species of bird in Sela mountain pass on the border between Tawang and West Kameng districts of Arunachal Pradesh.
- It was found at an altitude of 3,852 metres above sea level.
- The research team comprising BNHS assistant director Girish Jathar and researchers Atharva Singh and Himadri Sekhar Mondal published their finding in the latest issue of the journal Indian Birds.
- With this new species, now India has 1,340 species of the bird family.
- The three-banded rosefinch was spotted at an altitude higher than its recorded perch in adjoining China.
- The new species was found during an intensive survey of finches across the Eastern Himalayas as a part of an ongoing study.
(Source: The Hindu)
