HOW TO GET THERE: - Colombo – Negombo – Chilaw – Puttlam – Anuradhapura – Medawachchiya – Settikulama – Murunkan – Mannar (6 hours) BIRDS AT MANNAR & VANKALAI SANCTUARY Indian Spot-billed Duck, Eurasian Widgeon, Avocet, Common Teal, Northern Shoveller, Pintail, Gargeni, Greater Flamingo, Crab Plover, Oystercatcher, Red Knot, Great Knot, Ruff, Indian Grey Partridge, Lesser Crested Tern, Great Crested Tern, Caspian Tern, White-winged Black Tern, Little Tern, Great Black-headed Gull, Heuglin’s Gull, Brown Headed Gull, Common Coot, Bar-tailed Godwit, Kentish Plover, Black Drongo, Rufous Rumped Shrike, Collared Dove, Hoopoe, Montague’s Harrier, Pallid Harrier, Peregrine Falcon, Golden-backed Woodpecker etc. Province Northern District Mannar DS Division Nanattan