Places to visit nearby destination - Sunderban
Halliday Island The Halliday Island Wildlife Sanctuary along with Lothian
Island Wildlife Sanctuary lies to the south of Sunderban.
The sanctuaries are not the part of the tiger reserve.
Halliday is the last retreat of the Barking Deer.
Kanak Kanak is one of the nesting beaches of Olive Ridley Turtles
in Sunderban. The turtles migrate to the shallow coastal
waters from a long distance to breed. The turtles are
believed to travel upriver as far as 100 km from the sea
mouth into the Sunderban.
Netidhopani The beauty of the mangrove forests and the presence of
a large variety of wildlife in this region seem to have
attracted even the Gods to this place. At Netidhopani
you can have a look at the ruins of a 400-year-old temple.
The legends that prevail here lend a mysterious touch
to the atmosphere.
Piyali A beautiful resting place, Piyali is a gateway to the
Sunderban situated at a distance of 72 km from Calcutta.
Sajnekhali Bird Sanctuary The Sajnekhali Bird Sanctuary is situated on the confluence
of Matla and Gumdi within the buffer zone that extends
over an area of 885 sq km. Here you can have a look at
the wide variety of birds, the most popular among them
being the spotted billed pelican, cotton teal, herring
gull, Caspian tern, grey heron, large egret, night heron,
open-billed stork, white ibis, common kingfisher, brahmini
kite and paradise flycatcher. A rare winter migrant, Asian
dowitcher (Limnodromus semipalmatus), can also be found
here. Among the birds of prey are osprey (Pandion haliaetus),
Pallas’s fish eagle (Haliaeetus leucoryphus), white-bellied
sea eagle (Haliaeetus leucogaster), grey-headed fishing
eagle (Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus), peregrine falcon (Falco
peregrinus), Oriental hobby (Falco severus), northern
eagle owl (Bubo bubo) and brown fish owl (Ketupa zeylonensis).
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