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Bishnupur

JOYPUR FOREST

If: your eyes love the magic of green and your ears adore the symphony of nature, you are at the perfect place: Joypur forest is.a dense forest where sunrays have to-take permission from skyscraping trees to touch the bottom atmmany places. Go, have a-talk-with Sal, Kusum; Palash, Neem, Teak and Mahua. Roll your eyes to find chirping birds, say “Hi’ to a Cheetal (spotted. deer) and watch elephants going across the jungle.

JOYPUR FOREST WELCOMES MIGRATORY BIRDS

In terms of Wildlife availability, solitude and diversity it is the best wildlife area in entire west part of West Bengal. There are huge presence of resident and migratory elephants. If you want to visit nature and do wildlife photography, please go to forest department first or call them for elephant location then arrange your trip. Don’t walk through the jungle. Even from car you may watch a flock of deers are crossing road, Herds of elephants are going slowly or rare Black Francolin or Crested Bunting is calling. Enjoy the dense sal forest, contact locals, be safe. All these words are for solely wildlite lovers not for normal tourists. We can’t tell a normal tourist that you can see lots of spotted deer crossing roads.

Commonly Found Birds:

  • Indian scops owl (R)
  • Indian rollar (R)
  • White eyed buzzard (R)
  • Gray bellied cuckoo ( M)
  • Fork tail Drongo cuckoo (M)
  • Indian Pitta ( M)
  • Indian paradise flycatcher (R+M)
  • Lesser whistling duck (R)
  • Yellow eyed babbler (R)
  • Ashy prinia (R)
  • Grey breasted prina (R)
  • Green bee eater (R)
  • Blue tail bee eater (V)
  • Black breasted weaver (R)
  • Bronze winged jacana (R)
  • Black winged kite(R)
  • Indian nightjar (R)
  • Jerdons nightjar (R)
  • Jerdons leaf bird (R)
  • Small minivet (R)
  • + many more

WILD MAMMALS OF BISHNUPUR

Bishnupur Sub-Division has a significant coverage of forests. So naturally there are many types of mammals present at Joypur, Sonamukhi and Patrasayer Forests and other areas. Below are the list of few commonly found mammals in this area.

Sonamukhi FOREST