Out of the more than 300 species of birds migrating here due to cold rise and snowfall in the upper regions including Tungnath, 150 species have started flying towards the valley and plains. These birds have started reaching Baniakund, Makku Forum, and Makku villages in groups. The chirping of these birds can be heard in the forests from morning till late evening.

From mid-October, birds migrating to the forest areas adjoining the high Himalayas begin migrating to the lower regions. In the past two weeks, the forests adjoining the villages of Baniyakund, Makku Forum, and Makkumath are one and a half hundred species of birds including Golden Bush Robin, Himalayan Bluetail, Chesnet Tisia, Iskeley Bristened Rainbeveler, Bee Fought Red Star, Red Headed Bullfinch, Dark Bistered Roachfinch, Himalayan Green Finch Is staying here.

Not only this, other bird species also return to the valley areas from Kakadagad, Paladwadi, Rudraprayag, and Lake Srinagar Hydropower Project from November to February as soon as snowfall occurs. In these bird species, the ‘white capt water red start’ migrating to the higher Himalayas then reaches from Rishikesh to Dehradun in winter. After migrating here for about four months, again in March-April, this bird returns to altitude from 09 to 12 thousand feet for nesting.

The icy pheasant does the migration even in snowfall
Among the bird species migrating to the high Himalayas is the only snowy pheasant that migrates to the upper regions even after heavy snowfall. This bird migrates to a height of 12 to 14 thousand feet.

Out of more than 700 bird species in Uttarakhand, more than three hundred species migrate to Rudraprayag district alone. From October, these birds start flying to more than one hundred and fifty lowlands. As summer begins, they return to the foothills of the high Himalayas.
– Yashpal Singh Negi, National Level Bird Watcher, Makkumath, Rudraprayag