Bundala is the birdwatcher's celestial home located 246km from Colombo. The best time to visit Bundala is from August to April, during this time almost 20,000 shore birds can be sighted. The water bodies and the swamp mud provides guarded nesting and feeding place for wintering birds. The main attractions of the area are Migratory Stints, Sand Pipers, Plovers, Terns, Gulls, Ducks, and Flamingos, found in boundless numbers, along with the resident water birds such as Herons, Egrets, Pelicans, Teals, Storks and Grebes.
