Location
The Dehing Patkai Wildlife Sanctuary is among the tropical wet evergreen forests of Assam. The sanctuary covers an area of around 111.19 sq km and has various animals such as tiger, elephant, hornbill, pig-tailed macaque and hoolock gibbon.
It is home to a number of beautiful and rare birds, such as white-winged wood duck, slender-billed vulture, white-backed vulture, white-cheeked hill partridge and grey-peacock pheasant. Other birds like green-imperial pigeon, pale-capped pigeon, rufus necked hornbill and nuthatch are also found in this sanctuary.
This area also provides shelter to various reptiles like the king cobra, lizards, Asian leaf turtle and rock python.