PLACES OF IMPORTANCE MANNAR DISTRICT

Name of the place - Mannar Birds Sanctuary (Boundary place: (BoundaryVankalai, Mannar sea, Pallimunai, Puliyantivu, Thirukketheeswaram)

- This sanctuary, partly a Wetland, comprises Puliyantivu Island, Thirukketheeswaram, Pallimunai, Vankalai and the strips of land on either side of the , causeway connecting the island of Mannar to the mainland. Covering about 4,800 hectares, it consists of arid-zone thorn scrubland and pastures, waterholes and tanks, sand dunes, zone mangroves, salt marshes, lagoons and sea grass beds and maritime grasslands. sea-grass The sanctuary declared through a Gazette notification dated September 9, 2008 2008. Many birds including the v very rare migrants the Spot-billed Duck, the Comb Duck and the billed Gadwall; the rare migrant Long toed Stint and the uncommon migrants the Peregrine Falcon, Long-toed the Common-ringed Plover, Temmincks Stint and the Red necked Phalarope have been ringed Red-necked spotted at Vankalai.
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: - Pradeshiya Sabha, Mannar.

Tele No: - 023-3230806.

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