Kalij pheasant (Lophura leucomelanos)

Kalij pheasant (Lophura leucomelanos)

On my way down from an amazing sunrise near the Dochula Pass I encountered this gorgeous male kalij pheasant (Lophura leucomelanos) strolling leisurely with…


Dochula Pass, Bhutan

Dochula Pass, Bhutan

I was very fortunate to come here in time for the sunrise with a cloudless sky. Very slowly I had a growing idea of the magnificent snowcapped mountains to the…


Dochula Pass, Bhutan

Dochula Pass, Bhutan

The sunrise is almost over, and I was having a hard time deciding which direction to point the camera. Focus on the sunrise in the east above the stupas, and…


Rhododendron kesangiae var album

Rhododendron kesangiae var album

Rhododendron kesangiae var album is a beautiful and relatively large leaved species was my first and only encounter and the only one still with newly opened…


Grey treepie (Dendrocitta formosae)

Grey treepie (Dendrocitta formosae)

This is one of many opportunities that just presented itself after I had given up on getting any good captures during my Bhutan journey. I had just finished my…


Black-throated sunbird (Aethopyga saturata)

Black-throated sunbird (Aethopyga saturata)

Sunbirds are strikingly colorful, and you definitely get associations to the hummingbirds of the New World. Depending on the angle of the light the colors…


Striated Laughingthrush (Grammatoptila striata)

Striated Laughingthrush (Grammatoptila striata)

I encountered the striated laughingthrush (Grammatoptila striata) many times during my time in Bhutan, but rarely in clear view like this. In fact I thought I…


Rhododendron falconeri

Rhododendron falconeri

Rhododendron falconeri is perhaps the most impressive of all the rhododendron species I encountered during my travel in Bhutan. Not because it was such a huge…


Rufous-gorgeted flycatcher (Ficedula strophiata)

Rufous-gorgeted flycatcher (Ficedula strophiata)

Rufous-gorgeted flycatcher (Ficedula strophiata) is of a large number of bird species visiting the countless Rhodondendron trees in bloom. It sounds like…


Adonis davidi

Adonis davidi

This adonis davidi came as a total surprise to me, and only because I finally encountered a rhododendron plant with white flowers accessible to me on the…