Melselvanur and Keelselvanur Bird Sanctuary-Ramanathapuram,Tamilnadu - Bird watching area in Melaselvanur - Ramanathapuram, India

melselvanur saydu maakali amman temple is one of the best peaceful and powerful of worship place all are welcome to this temple and get blesses from goddess saydu maakali amman

Awesome place best during the month of October

Good to know there exist a place for bird watchers very near to keelakarai... this place have a well maintained bird watching tower and they also provide you a professional Nikon binocular.. it would be great if they have a boating here and maybe a cafe shop...

Melselvanur - Keelselvanur Bird Sanctuary is located near Sayalgudi in Ramanathapuram district. The sanctuary was declared in the year 1998. This is the biggest bird's sanctuary in Tamil nadu. The total area of the sanctuary is 593.08 ha. Pelicans, Painted Storks, Open billed Storks, White ibis, Spoon bills and Egrets regularly nest in the sanctuary. This sanctuary is considered to be the best heronry site in Ramanathapuram district. The vegetation of the tank is dominated by Prosopis in few locations with babul and on the boundaries with tamarind trees...

I gave 5 star, coz it WAS beautiful sanctuary once (when I was eight). But not today. It seems like barefield and we could've seen no birds nowadays. I wrote this with my tears. Pls save our nature and birds.

We visited this place in January. This perhaps is not the right season to view migratory birds. The water bodies are mostly dried up. Hence choose your time right or drop the place from your visit list.

There is no birds but here locate bird sanctuary. Early morning u go this place u see local peoples bothing

Very nice All migratory birds are there. Good season.