Eravikulam Wildlife Sanctuary

Wildlife tours to the Eravikulam National Park open up a secure sanctuary that protects the Nilgiri Tahr apart from a number of other wild animals. Eravikulam gained the status of a National Park in the year 1978. The Eravikulam National Park is located on the Eravikulam Plateau that lies at an altitude of 2,000 meters above the sea level on the base of the Anaimudi Peak on the Western Ghats in Munnar, Kerala, South India. The Nilgiri Tahr or Hemitragus hylocrius is an endangered mountain goat that is a very close relative of the mountain goat found in the Himalayas. The outer skin of the Nilgiri Tahr is usually of a yellowish brown color. The young ones of the Nilgiri Tahr are grey in color and acquire the yellowish brown skin, as they grow older. The males normally have a silver saddle patch on their back and are referred to as "saddlers."

The members of the wildlife family at the Eravikulam national park include tigers, elephants, gaur, leopards, sambhar, jungle cats, sloth bear, civet cats, lizards, lion-tailed macaque, snakes, squirrels, wild dogs, small clawed otters, ruddy mongoose et al. Eravikulam wildlife tours take you on fun wildlife treks along nature trails that course through evergreen tropical forests interspersed with grasslands, shrub patches, shola grass, exotic orchids, balsams and flowering shrubs. More 120 species of birds nest at the Eravikulam national park and you are likely to spot quite a few of these chirping creatures flitting from one tree to another on your Eravikulam wildlife tours. Some of the popularly sighted birds at the Eravikulam National Park located in Munnar, Kerala, South India include warblers, flycatchers, Indian Cliff Swallow, Kites, Buzzards, Laughing Thrush, Scimitar Babbler, Nilgiri Pied Bushchat, Harriers, Eagles, India Kestrel, Sandpipers, Large White Rumped Swift and other birds.