Relatively small park, Bandhavgarh Project Tiger (one of 27 such especially designated reserves in India) has incredible history. It borders the Sidhi forest where the first white Tiger had been discovered in India by Maharaja Martand Singh of Rewa. Thus emerged a new strain of genetically recessive character and such specimen gifted 9born in zoos) to different countries, courtesy India's Prime Ministers.

Bandhavgarh holds great promise for spotting Tigress families in different pockets of Sal dominated forest with intermittent bamboo clumps. Its dominant male Tiger called "Charger" died a few years ago after having proved as probably the greatest wild-gentleman of Bandhavgarh having sired a few dozed cubs through females, one of them named as Sita. Feline nomenclatures have been like those of humans here : Mohini, Bachchi (young cub) and its off springs called as B1, B2, B3. Others are like Jamuni-nullah female, Chakradhara female etc.

Water Birds : Remarkable bird watching is possible in Bandhavgarh while we take morning and afternoon open jeep safari (domesticated elephant available during morning session to locate the big cat hiding somewhere). They are : Little Grebe, Large Cormorant, Darter, Herons, Egrets, Bittern (Black and Chestnut), Storks (Open-billed, White-necked, Black and Lesser Adjutant), Ibis (White and Black), Bar-headed Goose, Lesser Whistling Duck, Ruddy Shelduck, Northern Pintail, Common Teal, Common Pochard, Cotton Teal, Comb Duck, Coot, Common Moorhen, White-breasted Waterhen, Jacanas (Pheasant-tailed and Bronze-winged), Painted Snipe, Black Winged Stilt, Lapwings, Plovers and several Waders and Terns.
 

Lesser Adjutant Stork	Marsh Harrier.

Raptors : Bandhavgarh offers wonderful sightings of Raptors : Black-winged Kite, Honey Buzzard, Black Kite, Marsh Harrier, Short-toed Eagle, Crested Serpent Eagle, Osprey, Shikra, Sparrow Hawk, Crested Hawk-Eagle, Bonelli's Eagle, Steppe Eagle, Lesser Spotted Eagle, Grey-headed Fishing Eagle, Red-headed Vulture, Long-billed Vulture (breeding over the cliffs), Egyptian Vulture, Harriers, Peregrine Falcon, Eurasian Kestrel and Eurasian Hobby. The nocturnal raptors are : Common Indian Nightjar, Jungle Nightjar, and Franklin's Nightjar, and several Owls (Collared-Scops, Brown Fish, Jungle Owlet, Brown Hawk-Owl, Spotted Owlet and Mottled Wood).

Around Resort : Other species include Partridges, Painted Spurfowl, Red Junglefowl, Peafowl, Stone  Curlew, Great Stone Plover, Painted Sandgrouse, Jungle Bush Quail, Pigeons, Doves, Parakeets, Cuckoos, Kingfishers, Swifts, Bee-eaters, Hornbills (Grey and Malabar Pied), Barbets, Woodpeckers, Larks, Swallows, Shrikes, Orioles, Drongos, Mynas, Cuckoo-shrikes, Minivets, Bulbuls, Babblers, Flycatchers, warblers, Chats, Thrushes, Creepers, Pipits, Wagtails, Flowerpeckers, Sunbird, White-eye, Weaver Birds, Buntings etc. The Park offers good number of butterflies. Inside the park, we need to be in an open jeep, can walk around at certain points. Around the resort, we have interesting time as birds are all around.

Tiger, Leopard, Jungle Cat, Jackal, Indian Fox, Striped Hyena, Sloth Bear, Langoor, Rhesus Macaque, Blue Bull, Four-horned Antelope, Chinkara, Sambhar, Spotted Deer, Wild Boar, Small Indian Civet, Common Palm Civet, Mongoose,  Porcupine, Hare etc. are prominent mammals. Three nights stay is suggested to include tiger sighting as well.