About 275 bird species, including two critically endangered, four vulnerable ones and two endangered species, were counted during a survey at Corbett Tiger Reserve.
Two endangered species — Pallas’s fish-eagle, Egyptian vulture and four vulnerable bird species — great hornbill, great slaty woodpecker, grey-crowned prinia and river tern — have been counted in the survey.
The report was compiled by Oriental Trials, an NGO working for conservation of wildlife.
Jim Corbett Tiger Reserve
A national park in India located in the Nainital district of Uttarakhand state.
The first national park in India was established in 1936 and named formerly called as Hailey National Park.
It was renamed Corbett National Park after the hunter and naturalist Jim Corbett, who had played a leading role in its establishment.
Comprises 520.8 km2 (201.1 sq mi) area of hills, riverine belts, marshy depressions, grasslands and a large lake and encompasses Dense moist deciduous forest mainly consists of sal, haldu, peepal, rohini and mango trees.
Corbett National Park is one of the thirteen protected areas covered by the World Wide Fund for Nature under their Terai Arc Landscape Program.
The reserve, located partly along a valley between the Lesser Himalaya in the north and the Shiwalik in the south, has a sub-Himalayan belt structure.