Birds of Pakistan

Pakistan has a rich diversity of bird habitats, from the dry alpine and moist temperate forests of the western Himalayas to the deserts of Baluchistan and Sind. The Indus basin, where some of the earliest human civilisations were founded, is extensively irrigated and cultivated, providing a variety of man-made habitats. This diversity of habitats supports a wide variety of bird species, and some 669 have been recorded. More than 60 per cent of the country - land lying to the west of the Indus river and south from Peshawar to the Arabian Sea coasts - is Palearctic in character, with a steppic dry montane habitat, and is very different from the rest of the Indian subcontinent