The home to the famed One Horned Rhino is located on the banks of the mighty Brahmaputra River in the far North East of India, covering an area of 430sq-kms with its swamps and tall thickets of elephant grass making it the ideal habitat for the One-Horned Rhino. It has been declared as National Park in 1974, and to get inscribed in the World Heritage Site in 1985. The vegetation consists primarily of alluvial grassland, tropical wet semi-evergreen and the evergreen forest.  

Beside the One Horned Rhino, Kaziranga is also the home of the “Big Five” The Elephant, Rhinoceros, Wild Buffalo, Tiger, and Swamp Deer. 52 mammalian species has been recorded in the park itself and include such rarities like Gangetic Dolphin, Chinese Pangolin, Hoolock Gibbon, Hog-Badger and parti-coloured Flying Squirrel. 39 reptiles make the list which include the endangered Gharial and the rare Assam Roofed Turtle. Both the Reticulated and Rock Python occur in the area.  

Kaziranga is also a birding paradise with a checklist of almost 500 species. Key species include Bengal Florican, Pale-capped Pigean, Swamp Francolin, Wreathed Hornbill, Jerdon’s Baza, Slender-billed Vulture, Pallas’s Fishing Eagle, Greater Spotted Eagle, Imperial Eagle, Pied Harrier, Greater Adjutant, Rufous-Vented Prinia, Marsh Babbler, Jerdon’s Babbler, Black-Breasted Parrotbill, Hodgson’s Bushchat and Finn’s Weaver. There is a breeding colony of Spot-billed Pelican.