Launching of Annual Calender 2015.

The most awaited annual calender for 2015 has been launched in presence of Honourable Tourism Minister of Sikkim,Honourable Forest Minister,Honourable chief whip of SDF ,Secretaries from both the Department ,Stakeholders,Memebers and Media person

Annual Calender 2015-The Avian Treasures  of Sikkim, the official annual calendar of Sikkim Ornithological Society is all set to hit  the market soon. This is the 4th edition ever since its inception  in  2010 and has managed to create quite a stir among the nature lovers and birding enthusiast around the country. Bird lovers  can place their orders through prepayment and consignments will be sent  through Indian Post. The design and layouts has been improvised and improved to a considerable extent, Birders have already started ordering copies through facebook and other popular mediums.......only  250 copies are left for sales in market. (even before the official launch)The calendar is priced at Rs.150 , the profits will be used in conservation of birds and in promoting awareness of birds conservation among  locals. If you are bird lover and wantsto order copy of it then you can drop mobile no.in the comment box SOS sales committee will contact you.

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SOS Annual Calender -2014

Finally Sikkim Ornithological Society annual calender is arriving tomorrow(5/1/2014) from Kolkatta after 15 days of of waiting.This time we have 33 birds in one calender,some of them are very birds of sikkim.Calender will be available in some of the renowned book stores of Gangtok like KANDOIKA,OPPOSITE BANK OF BARODA,MG MARG,GANGTOK,JANCO,Metro Point,Gangtok,RACHANA Book House,HOME DEPO,Development Area,A-Z Shopping Store,SOUVENIER,MG Marg,Lal Bazaar Book Store.
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For buyers from abroad,we are coming up with the detail of price and shipping charge .You can contact http://www.rachnabooks.com/ .

Sikkim Ornithological Socity and Green Circle Organised programme on different species of Pheasent.

Members of Sikkim Ornithological society and Green circle gave a rousing reception to Mr. John Corder, vice –president of World Pheasant  Organisation, London , UK today at Chumbi Residency.

SOS and Green Circle jointly organized  a day long programme on conservation ,captive breeding and reintroduction of species of the pheasant species in  the wild here at Gangtok. I t is worthy to mention that within a short notice, conference hall was packed with around 50-60 like –minded people ranging from environmentalist , foresters, birders, educationist , from Sikkim university, Khangri university and members of birds of the same feathers(Bird club of Enchey senior sec. school).

He shared his invaluable experiences on breeding and his lifelong study on Pheasants .He talked about his experiences of working with UNO, Darjeeling , Himachal Pradesh ,China, Malaysia, UK and various parts of world. He not only enlightens the minds of people but also greatly motivated all environmentalists from Sikkim to work even more harder for the conservation of wildlife and nature. The proud members of SOS also presented a gift to Mr.John as token of appreciation for sparing his invaluable time with the audience. The SOS and Green Circle have decided to collaborate in future and organize more awareness programme starting from schools and colleges in coming days. Interested institution can contact them at 9933442275.

Highland Bird Survey II

Like last year,this year too members of SOS(Sikkim Ornithological Society) organised highland bird survey to Tsomgu lake and zuluk,East Sikkim on 9^th march 2013..It has became the tradition for SOS member to go for highland bird search every year.Last year we did survey of Gurudogmar lake area and lachen and they recorded one the species called Terek sandpiper which was recorded for the first time in sikkim.

This year Niraj sir,Karma sir and myself  voluntar  in the survey and we were able to record some total of 33 species of highland bird in their list.Among them were Blood Pheasant(male and female),Kalij Pheasant,white winged grossbed,coal tit,Rudy shelduck,upland buzzard,grey creasted tit,mallard,grey wagtail,Eurasian treepcreeper,large billed chow,tufled duck,winter wren,shikar and many more.some of birds  like Pink browed Rosefinch,ruddy shelduck,white browed,winter wren and white winged grosbeak were common in surveyed area.Himalayan monal,national bird of Nepal which is found area like zuluk was in top of the list this time but they could find it because the weather was not in the good mood this time.

 During our visit we  interacted with the locals regarding the status of birds in their area .At last it was a wonderful experience.

TRIP REPORT BY Pempa Tshering Bhutia.