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It is
the only forest area, where more than half of the trees are high
building value teak. Salar (Boswellia Serrata Rox. ex coleb), Tendu
(Diospyros melonoxy Roxb.), Bad (Ficus bengalensis), Peepal (Ficus
Religiosa Linn), Babool (acacia arabica), Neem (Azadiracta Indica),
Arinja (Acasia leucophea), Siras, Churail, Kachnar, Gulmohar, Amaltas,
Bakayan, Ashok, Mahua, Semal, Goondi, Khejadi (propis specigera),
Kumta (acacia rupesris), Amla, bamboo, Sindoor, chironjee, Rudraksha''
and Bel trees are also seen here in abundance.
Out of 108 varieties of
high value medicinal herbs, 17 belong to the '32 endangered varieties'
that are found here.
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A large
number of residential and migratory birds are seen in this region out
of which about 130 varities are most comman. Little grebe, little
cormorant, Indian darter (Snake bird) Gray Heron, Pond heron, cattle
egret, little egret, painted stork, white necked stork, spoonbill,
lesser whistling thrush, Rubby shelduck, Pintail, cotton teal,
spotbill, Nukta, Parah kite, shikra, white eyed buzzard, king vulture,
white backed vulture, Tawny eagle, white scavenger vulture, Eastrel,
Black patridge, Rain Quail, Jungle bush quail, Indian peafowl, Saras
crane, White breasted waterhen, Moorhen, Purple moorhen, common coot,
pheasant tailed jacana, Red vettled lapwing, Red shank, wood
sandpiper, common sandpiper, Little stint, Black winged stilt, stone
curlew, Indian courser, River tern, common sandgrouse, Green pigeon,
Blue rock pigeon, Red turtle dove, Indian ring dove, spotted dove,
little brown dove, Alexzandrine parakeet, rose ringed parakeet,
blossom headed parakeet, common hawk cukkoo, pied crested cuckoo,
koel, crow pheasant, spotted owlett, collared scopes owl, franklis
nightjar, house swift, palm swift, pied kingfisher, comman kingfisher,
white breasted kingfisher, Green bee-eater, blue tailed eater, blue
cheecked bee eater, Indian Roller( Blue Jay) European Roller, Hoopoe,
Gray Hornbill, Coppersmith, Golden backed woodpecker, yellow fronted
pied woodpecker, Indian Pitta, Red winged bush lark, Ashy crowned
finchlark, rufous tailed finchlark, crested lark, Dusky craig martin,
wiretailed swallow, Red rumpted swallow, Gray shrike, Bay backed
shrike, rufous backed shrike, Golden oriole, black drongo (King Crow),
white bellied drongo, Brahmini Myna, Rody Paster, Comman Myna, Bank
Myna, Indian tree pie, House crow, Jungle crow, Black headed cuckkoo
shrike, Scarlet minivet, Common Iora, Red vented Bulbul, Comman
babbler, Yellow eyed Babbler, Large Gray babbler, Gray headed
flycatcher, Red breasted flycatcher, white browed fantail flycatcher,
paradise flycatcher, Franklin's ween warbler, Tailor bird, lesser
white throat, Indian robin, crested bunting Magpie Robin, Brown
rockchat, collared bushchat, pied bushchat, large cuckoo shike, wood
shrike, gray tit, yellow cheecked tit, yellow headed wagtail, gray
wagtail, white wagtail, purple sunbird, white eye, house sparrow,
weaver bird, Red Avadant, white throated Munia, Scaly breasted Munia,
are a few varieties that are comman to this forest region.For the first time in rajasthan two new bird varieties were noticed in
Sita Mata WL sanctuary about five years ago, they are- White-throated
Ground Thrush and Black-necked Monarch.
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