New species of bird discovered in Arunachal Pradesh !

                A new species of bird has been described from northeastern India and adjacent parts of China by a team of scientists from India, Sweden, China, the US and Russia. The bird, thanks to the preferred habitat, has been named Himalayan Forest Thrush.

                The scientific name, Zoothera salimalii, honours the great Indian ornithologist Dr Sálim Ali (1896–1987), in recognition of his huge contributions to the development of Indian ornithology and wildlife conservation.

                This is the first Indian bird which has been named after first discovered the Himalayan Forest Thrush in May-June of 2009 while studying birds at high elevations of western Arunachal Pradesh. It was realised that what was considered a single species, the Plain-backed Thrush (Zoothera mollissima), was in fact two different species in northeastern India.