{"id":2835,"date":"2025-12-05T11:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T05:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2025-12-05T15:59:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T10:29:18","slug":"keoladeo-national-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/keoladeo-national-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Keoladeo National Park"},"content":{"rendered":"
Keoladeo National Park Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n
Migratory birds such as stork cranes, pelicans, painted storks, and bar-headed geese returned to the Keoladeo National Park after heavy rains in the monsoon.<\/span><\/p>\n
About Keoladeo National Park<\/b><\/h2>\n
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It is situated in the <\/span>Bharatpur <\/b>district of <\/span>Rajasthan<\/b>.<\/span><\/li>\n
It was earlier <\/span>known as Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary.<\/b><\/li>\n
It is recognised as one of the world\u2019s most important bird breeding and feeding grounds.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
It was founded in the late <\/span>19th century<\/b> as a hunting <\/span>preserve by Suraj Mal, <\/b>the <\/span>maharaja of the Bharatpur princely state,<\/b> and became a bird sanctuary in 1956.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n
Declared a national park in 1981, it was renamed Keoladeo for the ancient temple in the park dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva.<\/span><\/li>\n
It has an area of 29 sq.km.<\/span><\/li>\n
It is the <\/span>only one of its kind in India <\/b>which is <\/span>enclosed by a 2-meters boundary wall <\/b>to fend off encroachments.<\/span><\/li>\n
It is a <\/span>Ramsar site<\/b> and also a <\/span>UNESCO World Heritage Site.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n
Vegetation<\/b>:\u00a0<\/span>\n
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Woodlands<\/b>, <\/span>swamps<\/b>, and <\/span>wet grasslands<\/b> cover a large part of the park.<\/span><\/li>\n
The vegetation here is of a <\/span>dry deciduous type,<\/b> with medium-sized trees and shrubs found inside its forest.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
Flora<\/b>: Some of the trees which can be commonly spotted inside the park are <\/span>kadam, jamun, babul,<\/b> kandi, ber, kair, and piloo.<\/span><\/li>\n
Fauna<\/b>:\u00a0<\/span>\n
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It is home to a range of mammals and reptiles\u2014including <\/span>pythons <\/b>and other <\/span>snakes, deer, sambars, blackbucks,<\/b> jackals, monitor lizards, and fishing cats.<\/span><\/li>\n
It is strategically located in the middle of the <\/span>Central Asian migratory flyway.<\/b><\/li>\n
It is home to more than <\/span>360 species of permanent and migratory birds.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n
During the annual period of migratory visitors (about October to March), birds from throughout the world can be found in the park. <\/span><\/li>\n
Among those wintering in the park are waterfowl from Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, China, and Siberia,<\/b> including species such as <\/span>gadwalls, shovellers, <\/b>common teals, <\/span>tufted ducks, pintails,<\/b> white spoonbills, Asian open-billed storks, Oriental ibises, and the <\/span>rare Siberian crane.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n