A UNESCO Heritage Site Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary is well known for being a birding hotspot. The destination comprises large reservoirs, shallow waterbodies, lakes, marshlands, and small forests. It is home to over 300 avian species that include: the mustached warbler, dusky warbler, ruby throat, Lesser Whistling Duck, Sarus Crane, plum-headed parakeet, Bar-headed Goose, Ferruginous pochard, Marbled Teal, Common Crane, Wigeon, Gadwall, Baer’s Pochard, Greater Scaup, Tufted duck, Baikal Teal, Yellow Legged Button Quail, Barred Button Quail, Mallard, Pintail snipe, Common snipe, Common Quail, Indian eagle, Blue Tailed Barbet, Blue Cheeked Barbet, Grey Bellied Hawk Cuckoo, Common Cuckoo, Sirkeer Malkoha, Alpine Swift, Short Eared Owl, Oriental Scops Owl, Brown Hawk Owl, Dusky eagle owl, Pale Backed Pigeon, Demoiselle crane, Red collared dove, Water rail, Brown crake, Greater spotted eagle, Brown Capped Pigmy Woodpecker, Yellow Crowned Pigmy Woodpecker, Bonelli’s Eagle, Honey buzzard, Steppe Eagle, Tawny eagle, Marble Teal, Black francolin, Chestnut bellied sandgrouse, Pintail snipe, Jack snipe, Black tailed godwit, Eurasian Curlew, Pheasant and Bronze winged Jacana, Red necked phalarope, Pacific golden plover, Baillon’s crake, Watercock, Grey nightjar, Long-tailed nightjar, and Peregrine Falcon to name a few. The magical realm of birds is home to deer, foxes, hyenas, and jackals as well. Chambal is a river sanctuary that is home to amazing avians like the Indian skimmer, whiskered tern, sand lark, Bonelli’s eagle, Tawny owl, Brown fish owl, Marsh harrier, chestnut bellied sandgrouse, Long-legged buzzard, Indian skimmer, Booted eagle, Pallas gull, Eurasian Wigeon, Gadwall, Northern shoveler, Mallard, Garganey ,Ferruginous Pochard, Red crested pochard, Common Shelduck, Comb Duck, Common Quail, Rain Quail, Rock bush quail, Painted Francolin, Greater flamingo, Lesser flamingo, Great crested grebe, Yellow Footed green pigeon, painted sandgrouse, Chestnut bellied sandgrouse, Savanna nightjar, Common Koel, Grey bellied cuckoo, Pied avocet, Kentish plover, Lesser sand plover, Long billed plover, River lapwing, Ruff, Terek sandpiper, Common redshank, Brown headed gull, Lesser black backed gull, Little tern, Caspian tern, Black bellied tern, Booted eagle, Pallid Harrier, Northern goshawk, Eurasian buzzard, Rock eagle owl, Black rumped flameback, Red necked falcon, White-tailed lapwing, and many more astounding number of avian species. , Chambal is known for its motorboat rides organized by birding companies and for gharial, marsh crocodiles, fishes, and turtles. It is a long stretch of the Chambal River that attracts tourists and bird watchers from all over the World.