Butterfly Season at Jim’s Jungle Retreat Lycaenidae is the largest family of butterflies with more than 6000 species found across the world. In India there are more than 440 species of butterflies belonging to this family. Most of these species have blue upperparts and hence these are called ‘Blues’. Rounded Pierrot is a tiny butterfly […]
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Jhirna Tourism Zone of Corbett Tiger Reserve
1. This is the first documented record of the Smooth-Coated Otter occurring in Jhirna Tourism Zone of Corbett Tiger Reserve. The smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) is found across South and South-east Asia. It occurs in suitable habitat across most of India and prefers freshwater lakes, rivers, ponds, wetlands etc, though it is also known […]