Bordering the yala national park to the east is the well-known bird sanctuary, kumana,As you approach kumana you hear a rather noisy invitation thousands of birds calling one another. Here a large variety of indigenous aquatic birds gather from April to July making kumana a bird watcher’s paradise there are herons, Starks, egrets and spoonbills, nesting in the trees above. Water hens purple coot and jacana build their nests in the swamp below.
From October on words the migrants or the “Bird tourists’’ arrive to get away from the northern winter are attracted by the lagoons. The tern, sandpiper, plover, Dutch and snipe is remarkable for the marathon flight it marks all the way from Siberia, although it weighs only about 120 grammas
The migrant birds leave by the end of March.
Ducks are the first to go. They make a fine sight as they circle the land and move away in an arrow head formation against a blue sky on their long way home.
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