<P> The park is rich in bird life too . According to an estimate of the wildlife authorities, the park harbours more than 210 species including several migratory ones . Some of them are peafowl, junglefowl, crow pheasant, crimson - breasted barbet, red - vented bulbul, racket - tailed drongo, Indian roller, magpie robin, lesser whistling teal, pintail, shoveller, egret and herons, minivet, oriole, wagtail, munia, myna, waterfowl and blue kingfisher . </P> <P> The best time to visit the park is between November and May . The park is open to visitors between 6 am and 10: 30 am and between 3 pm and 6 pm . The park remains closed during July, August and September . The park can be accessed by road and railway . The nearest airport, railway station is Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport, Nagpur and closest city is Seoni, bus can be taken to the park . Turiya is the nearest highway stop near Pench . Open jeep safaris are allowed from each of the gates twice in a day, with a fixed quota for each gate, for each schedule . Elephant safaris used to be conducted at one time, but have been discontinued these days . </P> <P> Pench forest reserve, is one of the places that may have inspired Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book . The Pench National Park provided the location used by the BBC for the innovative wildlife series Tiger: Spy in the Jungle, a three - part documentary narrated by Sir David Attenborough which used concealed cameras, placed by elephants, in order to capture intimate tiger behavior . The programme aired for the first time in April 2008 . </P>

Where was tiger spy in the jungle filmed