Bird Watching in Jaffna.

Bird watching in Jaffna, Sri Lanka will give you a memorable experience. Sri Lanka is located in the tropical region, so you have good chance to observe many kinds of beautiful birds and butterflies that belongs to this tropical region. In Jaffna district you don't have large forests or rain forests but have small forests like bush land. In addition there are many mangroves, marsh lands and beaches that offers the view of local birds. Here lot of immigrating birds like flamingos, Russian ducks and seagull used to visit for season. While you are touring this district there are great opportunities for you to view beautiful local and migratory birds where some of them make adorable sounds too. Migratory birds used to stay here from the months of August to April and it is suitable for photography, sound recording and video photography. You don't have camera accessories shops in Jaffna like in Colombo although you can find memory cards, batteries and other similar objects in the local market. There are good studios available if you want to make printouts. These studios offer one hour print service along with matt or gloss print paper selection. Meanwhile in Colombo you can rent digital SLR cameras along with other essential photography equipments. You need to provide your passport photocopy and a reasonable amount of money as deposit when renting the equipments. Normally the equipments are provided on daily rental basis.

You may have heard about South Georgia Island, Cape May, New Jersey, Pantanal, Brazil and Broome in Western Australia for best bird spices. But here in Sri Lanka they are unique and you must be patient to meet them in day time and night time.

There are varities of local birds like Honey Bird, Kuyil, sparrow, Mynah, Eagle, wood pecker, Kingfisher and many more verities of birds. Most of them used to visit in the morning while some varieties used to visit in the evenings only. Local people are very helpful to guide you to find birds like owl and falcons where they used to nest and rest. Morning is the best time to go for bird watching rather than the evenings as they may be little noisy. Popular areas for to watch migratory birds are Naranthanai, Karainagar, Thondamanaru, VallaiVeli, Sarasalai, Mandaitivu and Delft Island.

Mean while if you are serious bird watcher then don't miss Chundikulam sanctuary which is located 65 KM from Jaffna and there is a good place for you to rest called as Nature Park Holiday Resort. The place is run and maintained by the Sri Lanka army. This place is good for to watch both salt water and fresh water birds. Earlier this place was a salt water area and now it is becoming as a fresh water area as the sea is blocked recently. Madu and Mannar too are good places in the Jaffna district to watch local and migratory birds, Specially Indian region birds during the season. Keep your cameras and recorders fully loaded as there is lot of birds waiting for you attention to capture as images, video clips and to record their sweet voices. In the meantime there are thousands of crows can be seen in the

Now traveling to Jaffna is not a difficult task as you can travel by A/C train or can take airplane from Colombo to Jaffna in 6 hours of time and with the morning Express Train. In the meantime there are lot of Luxury buses too are plying between Colombo and Jaffna town. Most of them operate in the night time only. We wish you a good bird watching trip in Jaffna district. Also you can find lot of birds all over the Sri Lanka forest areas. It is better to contact local area bird watchers to get more idea on this. They can be met through Facbook social media page. There are hundreds of active bird watchers are active in Sri Lanka. You can find them in the Facebook pages with their captured photos and video clips.

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