KATHMANDU, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- A team of Nepali ornithologists has recorded a new species of bird in the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve in eastern Nepal, the National News Agency RSS reported on Monday.

Seen for the first time on Feb. 17, 2002 in the forest on the eastern dam of Koshi Tappu, the bird has been named "rato baksha arjunak" by the ornithologists. The name goes by its upper chest that is red in color.

According to the ornithologists, the bird can be seen as a winter visitor in Afghanistan, Pakistan and northwest India.

Nepal is home to 9 percent of the entire species of birds found in the world. And so far, 862 species of birds have been found at the Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve in Sunsari, some 450 km east of Kathmandu. Enditem