Overview
Specialties to be seen at:
Hans Pokhari Danda: White-napped Yuhina, Golden Bush Robin, Red – billed leithrix, Northern Goshawk, Wall Creeper, Scaly – breasted Wren – Babbler etc.
Hnage Tham: Large Niltava, Red – eared Rufous Woodpecker, Red-tailed Minla, Silver eared Mesia, Scaly – breasted Wren – Babbler (both), Tailed Wren-Babbler, Brown Parrotbill, Strait ed Laughing Thrush, Fire – tailed Myzornis, Nepal Cutia, Green Shrike – Babbler, Black-eared Shrike – Babbler, Rusty – fronted Barwing, Hoary Barwing, Golden – breasted Fulvetta, Black- spotted Yellow Tit, Maroon – backed Accentor, etc.
Mammals to be seen:
Barking Deer (Muntiacus Muntjak)
Rhesus Macaque (Macaca Mulatta)
Assam Macaque (Macaca assamensis)
Hoary – bellied Squirrel (Callosciurus pygerythris)
Yellow – throated Marten (Martes flavigula) etc.
Koshi Tappu Wildlife Reserve (175 sq. km.): Spot-billed and White Pelican, bar headed Goose, Comb Duck, Falacated Duck, Beer’s Pochard, Red –crested Pochard, Cotton Pygmy Goose, Gull –billed, Caspian & Whiskered Tern, Brahminy Kite, Pallas’s Fishing Eagle, European Black vulture, Greater Spotted Eagle, Black-necked Stork, Black Stork, Ballion’s Crake, Ruddy Crake, Water Rail, Swamp partridge, Hodgson’s Bushchat, Jerdon’s Bushchat, Great Reed Warbler, Smoky Warbler, Straited Marsh Warbler, Yellow-bellied Prinia, Black- faced and Little Bunting.
Greater Adjutant, Indian Skimmer and Watercock are summer visitor to Koshi.
Mammals to be seen:
Wild Buffalo (Bubalus bubalis)
Gangetic Dolphin (Platanista gangetica)
Common Leopard (Panthera Pardus)
Asiatic Jackal (Canis Aureus)
Bengal Fox (Vulpes Bengalensis)
Fishing Cat (Felis Viverrina)
Wild cat (Felis Chaus)
Common Mongoose (Herpestes Edwardsi)
Nilgai (Boselaphus Tragcamelus)
Spotted Deer (Axis Axis)
Hog Deer (Axis Porcinus)
Varities of Bats….etc.
Royal Chitwan National Park (932 sq. km.):
Birds of Special interest: Large Cormorant, Goosander, Ruddy Shelduck, Greylag Goose, Common Redshank, Temminck’s Stint, Painted Snipe, Changeable Hawk- Eagle, Rufous –bellied Hawk – Eagle, Mountain Hawk- Eagle, Red – thighted Falconet, Lesser Spotted Eagle, Grey –headed Fishing – Eagle, Black Baza (March to June, May being the best), Bengal Florican. Large Yellow – napped Woodpecker, Small Scaly-bellied Woodpecker, Himalayan Golden back 3 toed Woodpecker, great Slaty Woodpecker, Great Pied Hornbill, Indian Pied Hornbill, Pintail, Green Pigeon, Orange – breasted, Wedge-tailed, and Grey-fronted Green Pigeon, Stork-billed Kingfisher, Ruddy Kingfisher, Deep Blue Kingfisher, Red 0 winged Crested Cuckoo, Pied Crested Cuckoo (only in Summer), Ashy (Brown-eared) Bulbul, Hooded Pita, Yellow-eyed Babbler, Slender-billed Babbler, Jerdon’s baddler, Yellow-breasted Babbler, large and lesser necklace laughing thrush, Rufous-necked laughing Thrush, White – bellied & Balckchinned Yuhina, Black – headed Cuckoo-Shrike (only in summer), yellow-bellied Warbler, Dull Slaty- bellied Tesia, Blyth’s Leaf Warbler. Large Grass Warbler, Bristed Grass Warbler, Ashy, Grey capped and Plain Prinia, Black- napped Monarch, Paradise Flycatcher (Summer only) Sultan Tit, Tickell’s and Yellow-vented Flowerpecker etc.
Mammals to be seen:
Greater one-horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)
Sloth Bear (Melursus Ursinus)
Sambhar Deer (Cervus Unicolor)
Hog Deer (Axis Porcinus)
Gaur (Bos gauras)
Gangetic Dolphin (Platanista gangetica)
Royal Bengal Tiger (Panthera Tigris)
Common Leopard (Panthera pardus)
Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)
Leopard Cat (Felis bengalensis)
Porcupine (Hystrix indica)
Common Langur Monkey (Presbytis entellus)
Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta)
And many other small mammals.
Reptile to be seen:
Ghariyal (Gavialis gangeticus)
Marsh Muggar (Crocodylus palustris)
Indian Python (Python molurus)
King Cobra (Ophiophagus hannah)
Rat Snake (Ptyaus mucosus)
Striped Keelback (Amphiesma Stolata)
Banded Krait (Bungarus cearuleus)
Common Krait (Bungarus fasciatus)
Green Pit Viper (Trimeresurus gramineus)
Monitar Lizard (Varanus bengalensis)
Garden Lizard (Calotes versicolor)
And others.