Located in southern Sri Lanka the Bundala National Park portrays the vivid and abundant wildlife of the country. The park is spread across 6000 hectares of brackish lagoons, thorny scrub jungle, inter-tidal mudflats, and salt pans. It is mostly popular for its wealth of aquatic bird life, which includes some of the rare migratory birds. The setting of the nature reserve is such that there are numerous lagoons throughout the park making it an interesting habitat for birdlife that feed on the various smaller animals that take shelter in the water as well as in the areas surrounding the lagoon. 
Bundala is one of the important wetland sanctuaries for migratory shore-birds, especially the Greater Flamingo. Apart from that there are 150 birds listed as taking habitat in the park during some point of the year. Also, all water birds of Sri Lanka visit this area during a particular time of the year. Some of the rare ones to be spotted here are the Great Thick-knee and the Black-necked stork. Also, the Spoonbill, Blue-tailed Bee-eater, Red Shank, Green Shank, Blue-faced Malkoha, Spot-billed Pelican, Crested Hawk eagle, Brahminy Kite, and the Brown Shrike, are easily spotted here. During October and March as many as 10,000 birds visit this area and migrants and nomads from as far as Siberia come to make this their temporary home during this period. 
Being located in a coastal area, the Bundala National Park also attracts four of the five types of sea turtles in Sri Lanka. The coastal area of the nature reserve is a popular nesting area for these turtles. There is also a small population of elephant and other mammals to be seen here. Leopards, jackals, Sloth Bears, Spotted deer, Barking deer, Sambar, Civet cats, giant squirrels and the Indian pangolin can be seen here. The marshy land also attracts numerous reptiles including crocodiles. 

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