Dudhwa National Park
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Dudhwa National Park is a national park in the Terai belt of marshy grasslands in northern Uttar Pradesh, India. It stretches over an area of Template:Cvt, with a buffer zone of Template:Cvt. It is part of the Dudhwa Tiger Reserve in the Kheri and Lakhimpur districts.[1]
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History
The area of today's Dudhwa National Park was established in 1958 as a wildlife sanctuary for swamp deer. It was notified as a national park in January 1977 thanks to the efforts of Billy Arjan Singh.[2]Script error: No such module "Unsubst". In 1987, Dudhwa National Park together with Kishanpur Wildlife Sanctuary and Katarniaghat Wildlife Sanctuary was declared a tiger reserve named Dudhwa Tiger Reserve.[1]
Geography
Dudhwa National Park is located in Lakhimpur Kheri district of Uttar Pradesh. The area of the park falls within the Upper Gangetic plains and is a vast alluvial plain ranging in elevation from Template:Cvt in the farthest southeast to Template:Cvt in the north.[2]
Climate
Dudhwa National Park has a humid subtropical climate with dry winters. From mid-October to mid-March, temperatures hover between Template:Cvt. Annual temperature vary between Template:Cvt in the winter and Template:Cvt in the summer. The prevailing winds are westerlies, although easterly winds are common during the rainy season from June to September.[2]
Fauna
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Dudhwa National Park is home to diverse wildlife species including swamp deer, sambar deer, barking deer, spotted deer, hog deer, Bengal tiger, Indian elephant, Indian rhinoceros, Indian leopard, sloth bear, honey badger, golden jackal, Viverrinae, jungle cat, fishing cat and leopard cat.[3][4] Dudhwa National Park has a large population of barasingha, estimated at 3,000 individuals as of 2021.[5] Billy Arjan Singh successfully hand-reared and reintroduced zoo-born tigers and Indian leopards into the wilds of Dudhwa.[6] Some rare species inhabit in the park. Hispid hare, earlier thought to have become extinct, was rediscovered here in 1984.
In 1984-85, Indian rhinoceros was reintroduced into Dudhwa National Park from Assam and Nepal.[7] In 2024, there were 46 rhinos in the park.[8]
Birds
Dudhwa National Park is habitat of over 400 species of birds, including both resident and migratory. It includes Indian peafowl, ducks, geese, hornbills, heron, hawk, bee-eaters, minivets, kingfishers, painted storks, sarus cranes, swamp francolin, woodpeckers, barbets, minivets, bee-eaters, bulbuls, Bengal florican, Asian barbets, drongos, barbets, cormorants, teal, egrets, orioles, painted stork, fishing eagle, owls.[4] The white-rumped vulture and red-headed vulture, both Critically Endangered vulture species have been sighted in the park.[9][10]
References
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External links
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