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Point Calimere Sanctuary

Also know as Kodikkarai, this sanctuary is a situated on the coast of the Bay of Bengal, on a promontory that juts out into the Palk Strait.The sanctuary is famous for the vast flocks of migratory water fowl, especially flamingoes, that congregate here every year in the winter. In this season the tidal mud flats and marshes are covered with teals, shovellers, terns, plovers, sandpipers, shanks, gulls and herons. Another set of birds that visit the scrub thorn forest in the hinterland are quails, mynas and barbets that come for the profusion of wild berries. Dolphins are also seen here.

Area :17 sq.km.
Season : November to Jan.
Flora : Tidal swamp forests, mangroves, dry evergreen forests.
Fauna : chital, wild boar, bonnet macaque, black buck and feral horses. Sighting of dolphins and turtles near the shore is likely.
Birds : In season - flamingoes, teals, gulls, terns, plovers, stilts.
Accommodation : Currently not avaliable.
Access : By road.

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