Hear hornbills in
Pakke (Pakhui) Tiger Reserve in January
The hornbill forest that pays to protect nests.
Quick answer. Deep winter at altitude. Snow closes or slows high passes; Sela conditions rule the Tawang circuit. For Pakke (Pakhui) Tiger Reserve specifically, January is a comfortable month with the usual hill-state caveats.
The essentials
- Status
- Tiger reserve
- Model
- Community hornbill nest protection
- Access
- Bhalukpong / Seijosa side
- Month
- January, Arunachal Pradesh
- This month
- Deep winter at altitude.
Why January here
Tiger reserve famous for its hornbill nest-protection programme, run with Nyishi communities.
Pakke is the foothill tiger reserve of East Kameng, known across India for its community hornbill nest-protection programme: Nyishi ex-hunters paid to guard hornbill nests, a conservation model that won global recognition. Great hornbills wheel over the river here.
What to do
Hornbill sightings
Great, wreathed and oriental pied in one morning.
Pakke Paga festival
The annual festival celebrating the conservation story (Jan window).
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Pakke (Pakhui) Tiger Reserve in January, planned properly
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