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Parsa Wildlife Reserve Tour
Parsa
Wildlife Reserve
Parsa WildLife Reserve occupies parts of Chitwan,
Makawanpur, Parsa and Bara districts in
central Nepal. The reserve headquarters
is situated at Adabar on the Hetauda-Birgunj
highway.
The dominant landscape of the reserve is
the Churiya hills ranging from 750 m. to
950 m. and running east-west through the
reserve. The reserve has sub-tropical forest
types with sal constituting 90% of the vegetation.
In the Churiya hills and along the streams
chir pine grows. Khair, sissoo and the silk
cotton tree also e. Sabai grass, a commercially
important species, grows well along southern
face of the Churiya hills.
The reserve supports a good population of
residents- wild elephant, tiger, leopard,
sloth bear, gaur, blue bull and wild dog.
Other common animals are sambar, chital,
hog deer, barking deer, langur, striped
hyena, ratel, palm civet and jungle cat.
There are nearly 300 species of birds in
the reserve. Giant hornbill, peafowl, red
jungle fowl, flycatchers and woodpeckers
are a few of the other common birds found
in the reserve.
Many kinds of snakes including king cobra,
common cobra, krait, rat snake and python
are found in the reserve due to hot tropical
climate.
