Ranthambore Tiger Reserve

Highlights

• One of the finest places to observe Tigers, often seen hunting their prey in broad daylight, Ranthambhore also has a host of other predators such as the leopard, caracal, sloth bear and jungle cat.
• The prey species include sambar, chital, nilgai, chinkara and the wild boar. Scavengers like striped hyena, golden jackal, ruddy & common mongoose and the Indian fox are also present. Northern Indian plains langur is the most common primate species. Marsh crocodiles, which were introduced to Ranthambhore, abound in the lakes and regularly take down sambar feeding in the lakes during summer.
• Of the 330 species of birds reported at Ranthambhore, the notable ones are jungle and rock bush quails, painted sandgrouse, painted spurfowl, Indian vulture, white-naped and yellow-crowned woodpecker, sirkeer malkoha, Indian scops owl, dusky eagle owl, Xinjiang and southern grey shrike, ashy-crowned finch lark, chestnut-bellied sandgrouse, savanna nightjar, sulphur-bellied warbler, Indian thicknee and white-bellied grongo. In the areas adjoining the park, one can spot greater flamingo, demoiselle crane, Indian courser, yellow-wattled lapwing, rufous-tailed lark, gull-billed and whiskered terns.