Attidiya

The Attidiya-Bellanwila Bird Sanctuary is a 30 minutes drive from Colombo city limits. The sanctuary features the painted stork, purple coot, black and yellow bitterns, little cormorant, darter, cinnamon, asian openbill, lesser whistling duck, black-headed and glossy ibises, white-breasted waterhen, moorhen, purple swamphen, stork-billed and white-breasted kingfishers, rusty-rumped warbler and many more. In fact, more than 150 species of birds have been spotted here.