Kanchan Puri Ritesh Joshi Raju Pushola Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, New Delhi, India Shri Ram Villa, Society Area, Lane No. 11, Clement Town, Dehradun Uttarakhand, India Proceedings of the International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences ISSN 2220-8860 http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/piaees/online-version.asp 2024 14 3 108 114 International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences Hong Kong 21 April 2024 30 May 2024 1 September 2024 Garhwal Himalaya Muscicapa striata Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve natural history new distribution record North India An individual of Muscicapa striata Pallas 1764 has been recorded from the Mana Valley in the Garhwal Himalaya, in the State of Uttarakhand, India. The area lies under the dry cold desert region and consisted of dry alpine vegetation type and consists of the catchment of river Saraswati, a tributary to river Alaknanda and Ganges. Considering the reliable records in the literature, preliminary observations and species is a passage migrant in Indian Subcontinent, and northwest India, it appears that the species has a rare distribution across the Trans-Himalayan region of Uttarakhand State and is uncommon. This is the first documented record, which confirms the presence of the species in high altitude area of the State with photographic plates. As the species is not studied in the Indian geographic range and basic data on its migration and ecology is lacking, scientific studies are needed to be conducted to formulate a long-term conservation plan for this passage migrant of the old world flycatchers. http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/piaees/articles/2024-14(3)/first-record-of-Muscicapa-striata.pdf