Bhindawas Lake Bird Sanctuary
(Excellent birding area)
(Habitat: Wetland, woodland, grassland surrounded by cultivated land)
Area: 1014 acres
Contact Person : Wildlife Inspector, Bhindawas Lake Bird Sanctuary, VPO Kanwah, Jhajjar
(Haryana)
Distance from Delhi: 70-80 kms
Where to stay : there is a rest house with two suites
(Escape Channel, Drain Number Eight-tail with rows of trees and reed-beds are favourite
breeding sites for many bird species)
Khaparhwas Lake Bird Sanctuary
(Good birding area)
(Habitat: Wetland but now dry with eucalyptus planttion)
Area: 200 acres
Only two kms from Bhindawas Lake Bird Sanctuary
Escape channel with rows of trees and reed-beds have been breeding sites for many bird
species, but now dry)
Sultanpur Lake National Park
(Very good birding area)
(Habitat: Wetland, woodland, grassland)
Area : 300 acres
Contact Person : Divisional Inspector of Wildlife, Sultanpur Lake National Park, VPO
Sultanpur, Gurgaon (Haryana)
Distance from Delhi : 45 kms.
Accommodation available
Naharh Wildlife Sanctuary
(Good birding area)
(Habitat: Woodland with a man-made water-hole)
Area : 600 acres
Contact Person : Wildlife Inspector, Naharh Wildlife Sanctuary, Forest Rest House, Naharh
(Kosli-Rewari)
Distance from Delhi : 100-110 kms (30 kms ahead of Bhindawas)
Accommodation available
Kalesar Wildlife Sanctuary
(Excellent birding area)
(Habitat: Dense forest, hills, seasonal water streams, water-holes)
Area:
Contact Person: DFO Yamunagar
Distance from Delhi:
Accommodation available
Dense Forest and Himalayan foothills
Morni Hills
(Excellent birding area)
(Habitat: Forest, hills and water-holes)
Proposed wildlife sanctuary
More or less like Kalesar Wildlife Sanctuary
Contact Person :
Accommodation available
Saraswati Plantation Wildlife Sanctuary
(Good birding area)
(Habitat: Dense forest, water ponds, woodland, grassland surrounded by cultivated land
and a nearby water-stream)
Area:
Contact Person : Wildlife Inspector, Saraswati Wildlife Sanctuary,
Accommodation available.
Bhor Saiyadan Crocodile Sanctuary
(Good birding area)
(Habitat : Wetland with trees)
Area:
Contact Person: Wildlife Guard, Bhor Saiyadan Crocodile Sanctuary, Bhor Saiyadan,
Pehwa-Kurukshetra Road, Kurukshetra (Haryana)
Distance from Delhi
Bibipur lake is also located nearby.
Yamuna river and its sand banks
(Very good birding area)
(Habitat: Wetland and sandbanks surrounded with agricultural fields)
Western Yamuna Canal and its other branch-canals
(Excellent birding area)
(Habitat: Wetland, Tree-rows, bridges, irrigation bungalows, bushes, small and large
flooded fields, long grasses, barren patches, grassland, mudflats, cultivation)
Throughout the state of Haryana, irrigation canals, major and minor both, irrigate the
agriculture land. On both sides of these canals are marshy areas with trees which provide
very good birding opportunities.
Suresh C Sharma has traveled along the Delhi Sub Branch from Badli village in Delhi
upto the origin of Western Yamuna Canal, J.L.N. Feeder from its origin at Sardana water
fall upto Bhindawas Lake Bird Sanctuary on scooter, bicycle, car and on foot. There is no
dearth of vast expanse of grassland on both sides with trees and bushes. At several places
marshy and seepage water attract good number of birds for foraging, shelter and nesting.
Drain Number Eight
(Excellent birding area)
(Habitat: Wetland, tree-rows, bushes, barren land, reed-beds, tall grasses, grassland,
banks with burrows, holes and bushes, woodland, bridges, overhanging branches on water
stream)
Haryana has several drains, the best being Drain Number Eight, a birder's paradise.
Though all such drains provide good birding opportunites, Drain Number Eight of Sonipat,
Rohtak and Jhajjar districts is an excellent birding area.
Village ponds :
(Good and Very good birding areas)
Almost all villages have their ponds varying from just 1 acres to 100 and more acres.
All of them attract large concentration of water birds during winter. Bhambewa,
Barhwasani, Juan and Rithal being just a few among them.
Badkhal Lake
(Good birding area)
Located in Faridabad district, the lake attracts water birds and nearby hills provide
very good birding opportunities.
Surajkund and its lake
(Good birding area)
Near Badkhal Lake, this too is as good as Badkhal Lake.
Tiliyar Lake
(Good birding area)
In Rohtak district, its trees provide breeding colonies to water birds during monsoon.
The Arravallis hills
(Good birding area)
Spreading over large part of south-west Haryana, the rugged hills provide excellent
opportunities for birding. In fact, Badkhal and Surajkund are located on these hills only.
Even the Delhi ridges are its areas.
