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Kaziranga National Park is located on the banks of the Brahmaputra River in the far North East of India, Assam. It covers an area of approximately 430 sq-km. The swamps and tall elephant grass makes it the ideal habitat for the Indian One-Horned Rhinos. Due to unlimited poaching of the one-horned Rhinos the Park was declared a wildlife sanctuary in 1940.
Avi – Fauna
Kaziranga National Park is rich in birds. The birds found here include the Oriental Honey Buzzard, Black-Shouldered Kite, Black Kite, Brahminy Kite, Pallas’s Fishing Eagle, White Tailed Eagle, Red Junglefowl, Grey-Headed Fishing Eagle, Himalayan Griffon, etc.
Many migratory birds fly here to the lakes and swampy areas during winters such as Greylag Geese, Bar-Headed Geese, Ruddy Shelduck, Gadwall, Falcated Duck, Red-Crested Pochard and Northern Shoveller.
Climate
The best time to visit the park is from mid-November to early April months.
Fauna
The Kaziranga Wildlife Sanctruary is home to the great one horned Indian Rhino, (~900). The other major species include a large population of Indian Elephants, Indian Bison, Swamp Deer or Barasingha, Hog Deer, Sloth Bears, Tigers, Leopard Cats, Jungle Cats, Otters, Hog Badgers, Capped Langurs, Hoolock Gibbons, Wild Boar, Jackal, Wild Buffalo, Pythons, Monitor Lizards, etc.
Some of the reptiles found here are Rock Pythons and many more varieties of snakes, Monitor Lizards and Turtles.
Flora
The land is mainly covered by dense, tall elephant grass. This is intermixed by small swamplands left behind by the receding floodwaters of the Brahmaputra which are covered by water lilies, water hyacinth and lotus. The monotony of these grasslands and swamps is broken by large clumps of semi-evergreen forest.
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