Patna Bird Sanctuary UPSC

  • Patna Bird Sanctuary is located in the Jalesar sub division of Etah district in Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • In 1991, Patna Bird Sanctuary was officially established as a protected area for avifauna.
  • Area: Patna Bird Sanctuary covers an area of 1.09 km2 (108 hectares).
  • Patna Bird Sanctuary holds the distinction of being the smallest bird sanctuary in Uttar Pradesh.
  • Flora: Rreeds, grasses, sedges, and rushes etc.
  • Fauna:
    • Mammals: Jackal, Wild Boar, Mongoose etc.
    • Birds:
      • Lesser Whistling-Duck
      • Graylag Goose
      • Comb Duck
      • Ruddy Shelduck
      • Gadwall
      • Eurasian Wigeon
      • Indian Spot-billed Duck
      • Northern Shoveler
      • Northern Pintail
      • Green-winged teal
      • Common pochard
      • Ferruginous duck
      • Baer’s pochard
      • Tufted duck
      • Indian peafowl
      • Common quail
      • Black francolin
      • Gray francolin
      • Little grebe
      • Asian openbill
      • Woolly-necked stork
      • Black-necked stork
      • Little cormorant
      • Great cormorant
      • Purple heron
      • Cattle egret
      • Indian pond-heron
      • Black-headed ibis
      • Red-naped ibis
      • Eurasian spoonbill
      • Black-shouldered kite
      • Egyptian vulture
      • Booted eagle
      • Bonelli’s eagle
      • Shikra
      • Black kite
      • Eurasian coot
      • Sarus crane
      • Black-winged stilt
      • Black-tailed godwit
      • Laughing dove
      • Greater coucal
      • Rose-ringed parakeet
      • Plum-headed parakeet
      • Long-tailed shrike
      • Black drongo
      • Rufous treepie
      • Ashy-crowned sparrow-lark
      • Bengal bushlark
      • Red-vented bulbul
      • Plain leaf warbler
      • Ashy prinia
      • Plain prinia
      • Common babbler
      • Oriental magpie-robin
      • Brahminy starling
      • Common myna
      • Bank myna
      • Purple sunbird
      • Indian silverbill
      • Scaly-breasted munia
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