Nepal an amazing with varieties of natural life including birds life, due to its dramatic change in topographic forming one of the world’s richest countries in terms of bio-diversity due to its unique geographical position and altitude change, from the minimum heights ranging from 60 m above sea level to the highest elevation on earth to Mt. Everest at 8,848 meters, all in a close distance of 150 km resulting into vast climatic changes from sub-tropical-alpine to arctic temperature zone.
Nepal – occupying 0.03% of the earth which treasures wonderful plants, wildlife to many species of birds:
2 % of all the flowering plants in the world;
8 % of the world’s population of birds (more than 857 species);
4 % of mammals on earth;
11 of the world’s 15 families of butterflies (more than 500 species);
600 indigenous plant families:
319 species of exotic orchids:
With dramatic change in elevation with varied temperature and landscapes makes Nepal a wonder in all kinds of holiday dest6ination including bird watching programs, most of the bird habitat are in the mid hills and in low land Terai with deep verdant jungles of Chitwan, Bardiya National Park including Kosi Tappu wildlife reserve where it habitats more than 700 species of bird life excluding migratory birds visits here in autumn and winter from the cold arctic of Siberia, Mongolia all the way to low warm lands of Nepal.
Bird watching around Nepal’s popular National Parks
Chitwan National Park Area 932 sq.kms.
One of the most Asia’s popular National Parks in Nepal, the Park is famous for the elusive “Royal Bengal Tiger” the park habitats more than 200 One Horned Indian Rhinoceros 4 species of Deer, Bears, Monkeys,
Leopards and many different species of mammals and reptiles, and it is also a home of thousand species variety of bird life including migratory.
Bardiya National Park:
Located south west of Nepal Terai, famous for viewing of Black Buck, Bardiya National Park is also a home and habitat for Royal Bengal Tiger, one horned Rhinoceros and hundreds of different species of mammals and reptiles with various species of birds life.
Koshi-Tappu Wild life Reserves:
Located on the flood plains of South Eastern Nepal, the reserves offers important habitat for a different species of wild life, the last surviving population of ‘Wild Buffalo the ‘Arna’ found here, the reserve is famous and popular for many species of water birds including water life birds such as ducks, porchad, cormorants, and many others.
All the park is famous for over 450 species of birds, among the endangered birds are the Bengal florican, the Giant Hornbill, the Lesser Florican, the Black Stork and White Stork, common birds seen in the park including Peafowl, Red Jungle fowl, and different species of Egrets, Herons, Kingfishers, Flycatchers and Woodpeckers and the best time for bird watching is around March and December.
