Meet Himalayan Monal – The Nine Coloured Mountain Pheasant

Monal (also known as the Impeyan Pheasant or Impeyan Monal) is one of the most stunningly beautiful birds in the world. This large size pheasant is also known as “nine-coloured bird”. The bird has an iridescent rainbow-like plumage. However the look of the bird is pleasing to eyes but you might get exhausted if you try to assess (count) the numbers of colors on the bird.

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".