Wild Species in India

Indian Tiger (Royal Bengal Tiger)
Royal Bengal Tiger (Panthera Tigris): The national animal of India.
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Indian Black Buck
The Black Buck, (Antelope cervicapra) (Krishna Saar) is an endangered and fully protected species in Nepal.
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Indian Crane
Siberian Cranes (Grus leucogeranus), the subspecific population that breeds in central Siberia. Black-necked Cranes (Grus nigricoilis)
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Indian Deer
The Brow-antlered Deer (Cervus eldi) of Manipur (northeast India), or Sangai, or Thamin. One of the rarest and most localised deer in the world - and quite obviously, the most endangered deer species in the world.
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Indian Elephant
Asiatic Elephant (Elephas maximus): The largest and tallest of all Indian animals - literally the lumbering giant of the Indian jungle.
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Indian Lion
Asiatic Lion (Panthera leo persica) One of the largest of Indian cats, and the last remnant of the low-three digit population is confined to at Sasan Gir forests (Gujarat), where less than 300 remain.
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Indian Leopard
Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia), the exlusive, only truly alpine cat of the world.
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Indian Rhino
One-horned Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis): Poaching for its horn, combined with continual habitat destruction has brought this wonderful pachyderm to the verge of virtual extinction.
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Indian Horse
The Horse: Marwari - the desert horse of Rajasthan. Young horses are bought and reared in the hills. His dexterity in negotiating the narrow bridle paths in the hills - every manoeuvre so safe and simple, has to be experienced to be believed.
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Indian Birds
Following is the list of 1,224 bird species reliably recorded from India, together with their status categories. In total there are 1219 extant native species including migrants and vagrants (but excluding 3 species now known to be extinct in the country, and 2 introduced species).
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The conference of Birds
This World Heritage and Ramsar site is world-famous for its heronries and ,of course, for sadly dwindling number of great white (or Siberian) Cranes that visit during the balmy butter-gold winters.....
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