Kaziranga Tiger Reserve

Highlights

• The park hosts two-thirds of the world's great one-horned rhinoceroses. The tiger is prominent in the park’s list of predators, which includes leopards and lesser predators like the fishing cat and hog badger. Primates found here are the capped langur and hoolock gibbon, while other mammals are the sloth bear, common Indian otter, wild boar, sambar, swamp deer, hog deer and Indian muntjac. The reptilian fauna includes the water and Bengal monitor, Indian python and the king cobra.
• Kaziranga’s rich avifauna makes it one of the most sought after birding destinations in the country. The marshes support many species of waterfowl and an elephant ride reveals grassland species such as globally threatened Bengal florican & swamp francolin. Six species of storks are found here which include the greater and lesser adjutant along with the huge black-necked stork. The woodland forests are home to blue-naped pitta, slender-billed and chestnut-capped babbler, fairy bluebird, puff-throated babblers, silver-breasted broadbill and flocks of spot-winged starling in winters. Tea plantations and adjoining scrub and cultivation can be explored for the siberian rubythroat, rufous-necked laughing thrush and thick-billed warbler. Raptors here include Pallas’s and grey-headed fish eagles, changeable hawk, steppe, booted, eastern imperial eagles, pied harrier and up to seven species of vultures which include the critically endangered slender-billed, Indian and white-rumped.