The long term bird monitoring program through mist-netting exercise at the Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment (UWICE) has contributed a new bird record for Bhutan. The mist-netting team (Sherub, Ugyen Tenzin and Karma Wangdi) have confirmed Burmese Shrike (Lanius collurioides) as another addition to the number of birds in Bhutan which increases to 693 species. It was caught in the "Scrub I" netline yesterday at 8:00am. The bird weights about 26.2g with wing 8.6cm, tarsus 2.8cm and tail 9.3cm long. Some of the distinctive features of the bird are its dark chestnut mantle, white tail sides and chestnut rump. The team said that an insectivorous bird shrike has come back from their winter grounds in the altitudes. Capturing of the Burmese Shrike at this elevation is the highest record and on the western most in its distributional limits.

Mist-netting exercise at the Institute has started from 22nd August 2013. Bird enthusiasts carry out this exercise every day from 6:00am-9:30am. The main objective of the program is to learn and document; bird diversity  and change with season, bird community and composition, breeding biology and age structure. Body mass and morphometric data of every captured birds are recorded and a database is managed at the Institute. Sometimes school going children are also invited for this activity to out-reached program for bird education