Tibetan Sandgrouse

The Tibetan sandgrouse is a large sandgrouse, 30 to 41cm long, with a small pigeon-like head and neck but a sturdy, compact body. It has long pointed wings and a pin tail, an orange face, a finely barred grey breast, neck and crown, a white belly and black underwings. The feathered toes are fused together. The white belly and dark underwings separate it from Pallas's sandgrouse, whose range overlaps (Wikipedia, general species account).

It forages in the morning and afternoon on undulating semi-desert plains, moving fast, and feeds on seeds, grass, buds and legumes. It breeds in May and June on arid stony plateau and ridges, in a ground scrape that is usually exposed, with three pale brown eggs. The chicks can move around soon after hatching. The sources opened do not say where it occurs in Nepal.