Bac Lieu Bird Sanctuary is located in Hiep Thanh Commune, Bac Lieu town in Bac Lieu province.This destination owns numerous reserve areas that turns to be one of the most appealing ecological tourist destinations in Mekong Delta. Several documents of Bac Lieu Bird Sanctuary Nature Reserve state that the province foremost was a coastal wealthy and diversified saline plantation floor with the natural saline-marsh ecosystem. As a part of the remaining plantation floor along the East ocean, it is progressively far from the ocean due to alluvial deposits. It was looked after, defended and controlled by a house in 1962. After that, the local government found that the locality itself is a precious nationwide treasure and expended investments to preserve it.
Bac Lieu bird garden has a huge area of about 385 ha with the natural salt-marsh forest ecosystem, where nineteen ha of primitive plantation is there. This garden homes to about forty six kinds of birds, some of which are in the Red Book such as Giang Sen, little King Cormorant; 109 types of plants pertains to 90 lines of 46 descents; 150 kinds of animals, of which there are 58 types of fish, ten mammals, seven types of amphibians, eight reptiles and some other types of animals dwelling simultaneously in the similar diversified community which needs development and preservation.
Living in the Sanctuary is a diversity of numerous water birds, mostly teal, heron, stork, night heron and cormorant. Coming to the garden, visitors will have opportunity to enjoy the attractive views of each flock of birds soaring for food in the early morning and returning to their nests in the evening in the Sanctuary while the night birds start their excursions. For a lot of years transient by, the garden has been involving a tranquil home where generations of birds are born, usually in the rainy time of the year, and evolved. There are currently some forty thousand birds and five thousand nests, according to preliminary statistics. Birds mostly accumulate here during the rainy time of the year between May and October.
