Oristano has the largest wetlands in Italy attracting a plethora of colourful birdlife. Thousands of flamingos visit the island and nest in the lagoons: watching, as they collect at dusk, picking through the shallow waters for crustaceans, their pinkish forms becoming almost translucent in the dying light, is really quite something. The marshlands between Oristano, Santa Giusta and Arborea, depending on the season, are littered with migrating and endemic birds including little egrets, purple herons, woodcocks, blackwinged stilts, Kentish plovers, purple gallinules, crested grebes and avocets to name but a few.
With its diverse landscapes and mixtures of migrating and endemic species, Sardinia is a birdwatchers paradise.