Bac Lieu Bird Reserve, located in Nha Mat ward, Bac Lieu city, has long been a familiar eco-tourism destination for locals and tourists. Bac Lieu Bird Reserve has a wild nature, beautiful landscape, cool green space, and is home to many rare birds.
Overview about Bac Lieu Bird Reserve
From the center of Bac Lieu city, follow the road named after the late musician Cao Van Lau or Ninh Binh road, towards Nha Mat about 3km, turn right over the Bird Garden bridge 1km, visitors will reach Bac Lieu Bird Garden Eco-tourism Area.
The ideal time to travel to Bac Lieu to visit the bird reserve is from May to October every year. This is the breeding season of birds and the ideal bird watching season, the space is filled with the chirping of birds, with hundreds of different clear voices.
The diverse ecosystem of Bac Lieu Bird Reserve
Bac Lieu bird reserve is a remnant of the coastal mangrove forest, which has gradually moved away from the East Sea due to natural sedimentation. Bac Lieu Bird Reserve has an area of 130 hectares, with more than 100 species of birds and storks, with an individual population of more than 60,000 birds, including many rare species listed in the Vietnam and World Red Books.
The bird reserve has preserved a rich and diverse ecosystem, with 150 species of animals and 109 species of plants. The characteristics of natural forests. These are the main habitats that play a major role in the lives, nesting habitats, and reproduction of wild birds. Date palms are suitable for birds of the stork and heron groups to choose as nesting grounds. Thespesia populnea trees are suitable for gray herons and oriental darter to live and nest during the breeding season. All intertwined to create a green environment suitable for birds to shelter. The bird species living here seem to have a convention, clearly dividing the territory. At the highest point is a home for the egrets, while the white storks and white ibises divide and make nests scattered on the moderately high tree layers…
With its high biodiversity, the bird reserve in Bac Lieu has been recognized as a Nature Reserve since 1986. In 2014, the garden was recognized by the Government as a Species-Habitat Conservation Area.
As soon as you enter the Bac Lieu bird reserve, you can check-in the location with a row of bright yellow and vibrant canary flowers; go deep inside on the asphalt road with both sides full of green trees and flowers.
Explore Bac Lieu Bird Reserve
To explore Bac Lieu Bird Reserve, you row a three-leaf boat, go through a few curved bridges, then follow the canal to enter the garden to enjoy the scenery. On both banks are two rows of shady trees, occasionally you can see a few birds flying high, or discreetly camouflaged on the branches and leaves, curiously watching the visitors.
You can also walk, take the electric car under the forest canopy, look up high, it is easy to see that every dozen trees there is a tree carrying a few nests of storks, ibis nests with eggs and baby birds. Whenever detecting someone entering the garden, the mother bird immediately flies up to warn, and the baby birds are restlessly raising their heads to look around.
Climbing to the high observation platform, visitors can also admire a wonderful corner of nature in the South with a lush green forest, stretching out endlessly, dotted with birds flying.
Visiting Bac Lieu Bird Reserve, visitors will feel like they are lost in a bustling world of sounds with hundreds of different bird species. Especially at dawn when the sun is still hidden above the sea, visitors coming here will be amazed by the performances in the large water area behind the bird garden: flocks of birds in formation drop down from above to the water surface and then flap their wings to soar into the air in movements that are repeated many times as if they are doing morning exercises, making anyone who has witnessed it once feel truly impressed and unforgettable.
If you come here at sunset, from the purple East Sea, from the golden fields of Bac Lieu, flocks of birds fly back to their nests. They fly in order, separated by feather color and species. There are formations like arrows rushing forward, other formations are scattered and… when they return “home”, the archipelago is bustling in a corner of the forest.
There are also extremely fun and attractive folk games such as: cycling across the bridge, swinging on a rope, catching fish in the pond, blindfolded ball catching, blindfolded pig catching, racing three-leaf boat…
After watching birds and animals to your heart’s content, you can stop by the leaf-covered stalls built on the quiet lakeside, decorated with lotus patches, water lily bushes… where there are hammocks for you to lie down and relax. Don’t forget to enjoy the typical dishes of the Western region such as: water spinach salad, three-striped crab fish sauce, fried catfish with ginger fish sauce… In particular, you can also interact, play traditional music, listen to sweet and profound of Southern folk songs.
hotpot – Bac Lieu specialties
Bac Lieu Bird Reserve is a wonderful natural environment with values in terms of biodiversity resources, and is also a valuable conservation area for scientific research. In addition, Bac Lieu Bird Garden is also an ideal meeting place and tourist destination in Bac Lieu. Visitors from far and wide will get lost in a rare biodiversity conservation area of the bird world, which will be an unforgettable experience.
Source: collected by An
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