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Chitwan, with its dense forests, grasslands, rivers, swamps and lakes, provides a multitude of habitats for birds. Each provides a different type of food and shelter. Even within the same habitat, different birds feed selectively, minimizing The Royal Chitwan National Park is a sprawling area of low, heavily forested hills bordering India in the south. A veritable haven of wildlife, you can spot a wide variety of animals like the one-horned rhino, elephant, leopard, deer, wild boar and around 400 species of birds. The park, formerly a royal hunting preserve, covers nearly 400 square miles of dense forest and is home to nearly 60 Bengal Tigers. Animals Found in Royal Chitwan National Park Ungulates:Rhino /Gaur/Wild Boar/ Samber/ Spotted Deer/ Hog Deer/Barking Deer Felids:Tiger/ Leopard Canids:Wild Dog/Asiatic Jackal/Sloth Bear Elephants:CivetsLarge Indian Civet/ Small Indian Civet Mongoose:Common Mongoose Primates:Common Langur/ Rhesus Macaque Rodents:Indian Porcupine Reptiles & Amphibians:King Cobra/Common Cobra/Common KraitIndian Python/Bronze Back Tree Snake Crocodile:Marsh Mugger /Gharial Lizards Birds Found in the Park: Although Nepal covers only a fraction of 1 per cent of the earth’s land mass, it contains over 800 species of birds, about a tenth of the world’s known birds, and of these more than half are found within the national park. The reasons for Nepal’s great wealth of birds are mainly topographical. First, the country has a huge variation in altitude within a short lateral distance, so that conditions range from tropical to arctic in a distance of less than 100 miles; and second, Nepal lies in the region of the overlap between the Palaearctic realm to the north and the Oriental to the south. Chitwan knows two
distinct seasons - the wet monsoon season ( June through September ) and
the dry winter monsoon. The best time to visit the park is March through
May. The elephant grass at this time of the year grows up to 20ft, which
is too short to provide cover to the rhinos who prefer this riverine
environment. This is the natural habitat of endangered animals like Bengal
Tigers, one-horned rhinoceros and gharial crocodile. The park also secures
populations of other endangered species such as wild elephant, four-horned
antelope, striped hyena, pangolin, Gangetic dolphin, monitor lizard and
python. |
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