Meet Himalayan Monal – The Nine Coloured Mountain Pheasant

Lady Mary Impey, the wife of the British chief justice of Bengal, was the first person who kept these pheasants in captivity and later the bird got its scientific name after her. The following two paragraphs are the description of the appearance of this colourful bird. You may skip directly to the photographs of the Monal. As someone rightly said that a picture is worth a thousand words.