Author: Jim's Jungle Retreat

Elephants are amazing creatures. Though usually called ‘gentle giants’, the elephants can be quite temperamental and if disturbed, dangerous to anyone who is within a trunk’s reach. While watching elephants on the jungle drives, it is impotent to maintain distance from elephants as they get stressed out if we breach their personal space which can […]

The Yellow-throated Marten is the largest old world marten found in the Himalayas, with a range extending from Afghanistan and Pakistan through India, Nepal, Bhutan and into south-east Asia, southern China, Taiwan, Korea and eastern Russia.It grows to a size of 500-720mm and can weigh nearly six kilograms. It has a black and yellow coat […]

Sighting a tiger on a safari is every visitor’s wish. When you get to spot a tiger that is in no hurry and that there is no other jeep in the vicinity to disturb you or the tiger, it is the ultimate dream of a tiger enthusiast fulfilled. When we entered Corbett Tiger Reserve on […]

Spotted Deer is the most common of the four species of deer found in Corbett Tiger Reserve. It is one mammal that can be found in almost all habitats including grasslands, riverbeds, open scrub forest, thick mixed and Sal forests and occurs from the low-lying southern areas like Dhela and Jhirna zobes of the reserve […]

Wildlife Week is celebrated every year from 2nd to 8th October 2022. In 1952, the Indian Board for Wildlife was established and it was decided to celebrate one week of awareness activities to spread the message to protect all kinds of fauna in our natural habitats. The aim of the Wildlife Week is to highlight […]

Fulvous Forest Skimmer is a medium-sized red dragonfly with transparent wing tips. Male has a reddish-brown head with red eyes, body and reddish-brown legs. Wings are dark red with a transparent patch at the wing tips. Females are paler than males, often rusty-brown or yellowish-brown in coloration. Fulvous Forest Skimmer prefers wet forests and breeds […]

Corbett National Park, a smaller section of the larger Corbett Tiger Reserve, is located in the Nainital district of the Uttarakhand province. It is also a Project Tiger Reserve. The beautiful landscape of Corbett is well-known and legendary for its profusion of tigers. Corbett was first formed in 1936 as Hailey National Park and is […]

The distinctions within the genus Mirafra are sometimes subtle and perplexing, with many variances visible only when specimens are studied in hand. Previously, the Bengal bush lark was divided into two races: the Bengal race assamica and the Madras race affinis. These were later classified as Jerdon’s bush lark (Mirafra affinis) and assamica in the […]

Baya Weaver is one of the weaverbird species occurring across south & south-east Asia. The species has an elaborate and unique nesting behaviour. Male colonies come up on suitable trees with several males weaving their half-made nests. These colonies are visited by wandering females and when this happens, males sit next to their nests, chirping […]

While Corbett is well-known for its robust population of large mammals, such as the Indian Tiger and the Asiatic Elephant, it is also well-known for the more than 500 species of birds that have been identified in the region. Some of the species that are frequently spotted in and around the park include the Lesser […]

Corbett Tiger Reserve is home to the largest population of tigers for any protected area across the distribution range of the species. As per the last count there are more than 250 tigers in Corbett. The reason for such a good density of tigers in the reserve is the abundance of the prey base. Tiger’s […]