This park features the world’s most striking heronries harboring a large number of resident and migratory birds and according to Sir Peter Scott who founded the World Wildlife Fund and the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust this is the best bird area in the world. The Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary being a Ramsar site under the Ramsar Convention inclusive of being a World Heritage site is also the winter ground for the endangered Siberian Crane or Grus leucogeranus species.
Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary is located in Rajasthan is bound by a stone-masonry wall and has agricultural fields and villages in the vicinity and hence lacks a buffer zone and is reputed as a unique reserve for the Indian Wildlife.
The Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary is known to be an artificially created and maintained wetland zone including water flowing into the marshes twice a year from the Gambira River making it more of a wildlife reserve for the resident and migratory birds. During the monsoon period from July to September the wildlife reserve zone is flooded to an average depth of 2 meters and from October to January the water level tends to fall gradually and the region dries out from February onwards and with receding water levels the ground level surfaces with new food sources and this attracts more and more birds.
The increasing number of birds in the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary has in turn is known to have attracted a number of ornithologists who visit this place in the hibernal season. The range of bird species found in the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary are Pelicans, Cranes, Ducks, Eagles, Hawks, Pipits, Warblers, Wheatears, Wagtails, Flycatchers, Buntings, Larks, Shanks, Painted storks, Pipits, White Ibis, Cormorants, Pale, Marsh Harriers and Stints. Know more about the Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary as indiatouroperator.com offers information about India Wildlife Sanctuary Tour.
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