Pashan Garh, Panna National Park

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Pashan Garh

One of India's smaller but well known reserves, Panna National Park is known for its wild cats, including tiger, leopard and other cat species. Wild dog, wolf, hyena and caracal all wander the park's large plateau. Sloth bear make their home among the rocky escarpments. The dense forests shelter the large sambar deer, as well as chital and chowsingha. Milgai and chinkara can be seen on the outskirts of the open grasslands.

Panna is situated along the banks of the Ken River, which flows through the reserve from north to south, providing a life line to the park's wildlife. Two species of crocodile specific to India, the mugger and the rarely spotted long snouted gharial, can be found in the river.

Dense mixed forests cover the reserve, interspersed with open grasslands and woodlands. Panna lies in the hills of Vindhya range and, after the monsoon season, the deep ravines are punctuated with cascading waterfalls. Streams and lakes fill up with water, luring flocks of migratory birds. Panna boasts more than 200 bird species, with the magnificent colours of India's national bird, the peacock, often spotted in the reserve. White necked stork, bareheaded goose and honey buzzard are among the many other birds spotted in the park.

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Peregrine Falcon with Quarry

One of the most picturesque landscapes in Panna National Park is the gorge called Dhundwa seha, which boasts of different birds like the Griffons, Long billed vultures, Egyptian vultures, Blue rock pigeons, dusky crag martin etc. This gorge is also home to a pair of Peregrine falcons which we often see. On one of my visit with guests, we could constantly...

Posted: Pashan Garh by Sajith Ponnappa, Date: 6 March 2010

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First Record - Orange Breasted Green Pigeon

Identifying birds can be difficult, esp when there are very minute differences in species. One such lesson I learnt was when we recorded the Orange Breasted Green Pigeon. We had seen the Yellow Footed Green Pigeon on the drive but not a good view. Much later into the drive we saw another flock sitting on the canopy & we stopped to have a clearer look,...

Posted: Pashan Garh by Sajith Ponnappa, Date: 15 January 2010

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Bear!

We were just finishing the evening drive and leisurely driving uot of the national park, when we came upon a sloth bear digging a termite mound by the side of the track! The bear was startled and immediately ran off into the grass a few metres from the vehicle. It then reared on its hind legs to observe us for a few minutes. The bear repeated this a few...

Posted: Pashan Garh by Ratna Singh, Date: 12 December 2009

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Staff luck continues

On an evening drive with our colleagues from Mahua Kothi, we were nearing the Gorge (Dhundwa Seha) which is quite a landscape attraction in Panna National Park. Suddenly we heard immensely stressed warning calls of Langurs, the best view of whom was from where we are allowed to get out of the vehicle to enjoy the beauty of the natural structure. On...

Posted: Pashan Garh by Sajith Ponnappa, Date: 1 December 2009

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Staff luck continues

Posted: Pashan Garh by Sajith Ponnappa, Date: 1 December 2009

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staff's day out

we took three vehicles into the park with most of the staff. since morning i was following alarm calls next to the river. at around 8:30 am when some of the guys had gone on to the boat to look for crocks a few vehicles came rushing there to tell me that the tigeress had been spotted. so we quickly got back on to the vehicle and went looking, after about...

Posted: Pashan Garh by shree jayadeva, Date: 29 November 2009

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waking up with a leopard

was driving my vehicle to the park gate early in the morning at around 6:oo am, as i took a curve on the road there was a leopard crouching on the road!! as i came to a screeching halt it stood up, gave me breifest of a look and exploded into the treeline...

Posted: Pashan Garh by shree jayadeva, Date: 27 November 2009

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Tiger sighting (very rare in panna)

Was in the park with my guests in the evening and it was their last drive. we stopped to look at a small herd of sambars and all of a sudden alarm calls started at a distance and slowly moved towrds where we were. knowing the area me and the guide thought it could be a leoprd, but as luck has it it turned out to be a tigress!!! she walked alongside for a...

Posted: Pashan Garh by shree jayadeva, Date: 27 November 2009

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INDIA "ROCK" PYTHON

I was telling my guest about the big 4 (venomous) snakes of India (common krait, saw scaled viper, russell’s viper, spectacled cobra), they all are found in panna national park. Suddenly......came across a big track...it looked like a python also known as ajgar, had just crossed the road. As i moved little ahead i saw this big Indian rock python on the...