Kakadu National Park Research Paper

Wildlife, Nature & Wildlife: Unravel the best of wildlife and nature in Kakadu National Park(Australia) Kakadu is the largest national park in Australia covering almost 20000sq.km which is half of the size of Switzerland. Renowned for the richness of aboriginal cultural sites, kakadu national park has recorded around 5000 art sites over thousand years which illustrates the aboriginal culture. Located in the tropic of south of equator, the climatic condition remains monsoonal changing from dry season(April/May to September) to wet season(January to March/April). Most of the rains are forms over Southeast Asia due to monsoonal troughs. Kakadu is considered to be richest in flora population in Northern Australia. It has recorded more than 17000 plant species and is

It grows during summer in the late tropical months during February and March. The seeds of these grasses are harvested by ants and are an important food source for birds such as finches. Kapok Bush, is a small native tree which has the most beautiful flowers and appears only during the dry season. These flowers further turns into green capsules, harden and then turns brown and spilt open to release a cotton wool like structure called kapkok. Kakadu National Park supports a great array of diverse environment. Kakadu is a habitat for more than 200 species of birds, 117 species of reptiles, 25 frog species, and 10000 species of insects. 53 species of freshwater species has also been recorded out of which eight of them have a restricted distribution. Partridge Pigeon, Brolga and Magpie Goose and Comb- Crested Jacana form the bird species in kakadu national park. Water birds include a large population of magpie geese, green pygmy geese, black-necked stork, Australian pelicans and many others. Among the insect group includes butterflies, moths, bees, wasps, ants, dragonflies, damselflies, Cadel flies, beetles, termites and grasshoppers. The most striking created insect creature found