Saturday 17 August 2013

Kuala Gula Bird Sanctuary

This beautiful place is located at matang forest reserve.This place is a natural mangrove forest spreading along the costline.To be exact,this bird sanctuary is about 50km from Taiping,covers both an inter tidal and mangrove habitat.There is a small fishing village located around but it is still very active till this very day.Bird lovers can get to see some of the very globally threatened birds grace it shores.This Kuala Gula Bird Sanctuary is one of the very ideal place for bird watchers to see the roosting site of the waterbirds and also the nesting ground for resident birds.This event can be viewed at the best of it by using a boat.








































This wildlife place is not only habitated by birds but there are also other land animals such as monkeys, wild pig, bats, civets.There are also reptiles like the malayan water monitor,phythons and mangrove snakes.Overall this place would be the ideal spot for bird lovers as there are more then 166 species of birds. 

























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