Corbett

Uttarakhand·wildlife · hills

A beautiful sky which has turn into orange color giving a beauty to the sky. Jim Corbett National Park is the oldest national park in India and was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park to protect the endangered Bengal tiger.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · forest

Dead elephant in Corbett National Park, India. The Asian or Asiatic elephant (Elephas maximus) is the only living species of the genus Elephas and is distributed in Southeast Asia from India in the west to Borneo in the east.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · birds

A River Tern sits on a rock within the Ramganga dam while a pair of Emerald Doves sit on the forest floor, having drunk water from a stream in Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand, India.

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Kosi river near Corbett National Park. This is the river that often floods during the monsoons and many people get swept away. Many of the resorts lie along this river - Infinity and the rest of them.

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The king on a stroll. Indian elephant walking amid unmindful Chital or Spotted Deer (Axis axis) at Corbett Park.

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Elephants cross a forest track! Wild Elephants crossing a road in Jim Corbett National Park.

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Black and white butterflies mating in Corbett National Park in Uttaranchal / Uttarakhand in North India. Butterfly, mating, procreation, insects.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · river

Fascinating and unusual sight of a sounder of Wild Boar crossing the Ramganga river in Corbett National Park! Swimming boar! Wild Boar crossing river! Sausages on hoof...

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Two elephants fighting for superiority within the herd, at Corbett National Park.

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Smooth-coated Otters at Corbett, in the Ramganga river! According to www.jimcorbettnationalpark.com: "Corbett is one of the few places in India where three species of otter are found existing together.

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Damselflies mating in Corbett National Park in Uttaranchal / Uttarakhand in North India.

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According to Wikipedia: "Bulbuls are a family, Pycnonotidae, of medium-sized passerine songbirds. Many forest species are known as greenbuls.

Uttarakhand·wildlife · forest

Sambar deer at Sariska National Park and Tiger Reserve, Rajasthan, India. a pair of mud-caked Sambar cross each other in the deciduous forests of Sariska, in the Aravalli range.

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Two elephants fighting each other at Corbett National Park's Dhikala Chaur grassland. Elephas maximus in India.

Uttarakhand·livestock

This herd of elephants is walking through the Dhikala chaur or grassland in Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand, India.

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Immature or young Little Green Bee-eater or Merops orientalis, Corbett National Park, India. The Bee-eater is beating a bee to death, on the branch it's sitting on, as Bee-eaters are wont to do! They are sitting on a Lantana camara shrub!

Uttarakhand·wildlife · forest

The Red Junglefowl (Gallus gallus) is a tropical member of the pheasant family. It is thought to be ancestral to the domestic chicken, with some hybridisation with the Grey Junglefowl.[2] The Red Junglefowl was first domesticated at least f…

Uttarakhand·birds

Lineated Barbet is an Asian barbet. Here seen in Corbett Park on a Ficus tree. Barbets and toucans are a group of near passerine birds with a worldwide tropical distribution.

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Ring necked Plover and Sandpiper in the Ramganga, Corbett National Park, Uttarakhand, India.

Uttarakhand·river

Vijay Soni, India's expert angler, with a mahseer (sort of the Indian salmon! A real fighting fish) prize catch on the Ramganga river, above Corbett Park, Uttaranchal, India.

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Elephant standing in front of Jeep Safari, waiting to take people into the grassland chaur of Corbett National Park's Dhikala forest rest house.

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Jim Corbett national park is extended over an area of more than 500 sq km in the Himalayan foothill. Jim national park is the first wildlife reserve of India and was established in 1936 as Hailey National Park.

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Rupin Dang and Harmit Ahuja in discussion about the unusual tiger-elephant friction he encountered on a recent visit to Corbett National Park.