Birds Watching by Canoes

Bird watching in Tangalle takes place in Kalametiya lagoon and Kalametiya bird sanctuary is a wonderful bird sanctuary in Southern coast. Kalametiya bird sanctuary similar to Bundala bird sanctuary and Kalametiya bird sanctuary established in 1938. Kalametiya bird sanctuary in between Tangalle and Hambantota and 18 Km away from the Tangalle town (30 min drive from the Tangalle). Tangalle Bird watching tour is a wonderful thing to do in Tangalle.

It spread Kalametiya bird sanctuary over 2500 hectares in the southern coastal belts and it is a dry zone wetland bird sanctuary. Kalametiya bird watching by double catamaran canoe and it is 2–3 hrs bird watching tour in Tangalle. Most of bird experts recorded over 160 immigrating and endemic birds found in Kalametiya bird sanctuary. Besides the bird life, over 20 species of mammals live within the sanctuary, and 41 types of fish and 38 species of reptiles that also live within the Kalametiya Bird Sanctuary. Following bird species found in Kalametiya bird sanctuary. Lesser Whistling-Duck, Garganey, Indian Peafowl, Sri Lanka Jungle fowl, Little Grebe, Rock Pigeon, Spotted Dove, Sri Lanka Green-Pigeon, Greater Coucal, Blue-faced malkoha, Pied Cuckoo, Indian Nightjar, Asian Palm-Swift, Indian Thick-knee, Great Thick-knee, Black-winged Stilt, Pacific Golden-Plover, Greater Sand-Plover, Black-tailed Godwit, Green Sandpiper, Barred Buttonquail, Osprey, Shikra, Common Iora, Yellow-eyed Babbler, White-browed Bulbul, Gray-bellied Cuckoo.