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Only
176 kms from Delhi and 50 Kms west of Agra and the Taj
Mahal, Keoladep Ghana is one of the best places in the
World for serious and also ignorant bird watchers. Over
350 species of permanent and migratory birds breed in
the 29 Sq Km marshes and woodlands of Bharatpur. The
area was developed as a wildfowl hunting preserve by
the Mahraja of Bharatpur in the late 19th Century.
This is one of the only two breeding
sites for the endangered Siberian Cranes and numerous
water birds that visit it during the cold nothern winters.
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Wild boar , sambar , blue
bull , black buck , mongoose , small cats , jackals ,
fox , hyena and rock pythons.
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In
all there are about 350 species of birds seen here which
include white ibis , painted stork , siberian cranes
, openbill , spoonbill , egrets , herons , cormorants
, shags , moorhens , jacanas , ducks , bar headed geese
, plovers , pelicans , warblers , pipits , wagtails
, buntings , demoiselle and sarus crane , steppe eagle
, marsh harriers , osprey , peregrine falcon , ring-tail
fishing eagle , kites , vultures , kinfishers , curlews
and yet many more...
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