On the Yala National Park Safari Tours, you will get to see a wide variety of wildlife, including birds such as the Sri Lanka grey hornbill, Sri Lanka Junglefowl, Sri Lanka wood pigeon, Crimson-fronted Barbet, black-capped bulbul, blue-tailed bee-eater and brown-capped babbler. There are a lot of wetland birds that inhabit the wetlands in the national park including lesser whistling duck, garganey, little cormorant, Indian Cormorant, grey heron, black-headed ibis, Eurasian spoonbill, Asian Openbill, painted stork, medium-sized waders Tringa and small waders Charadrius, etc.
It also has lesser flamingo, pelicans, purple heron, night herons, egrets, purple swamphen, and Oriental Darter. The mammals include Sri Lankan sloth bear, leopard, elephant, wild water buffalo, Toque macaque, golden palm civet, red slender loris, and fishing cat. The Sri Lankan Krait, Boulenger's Keelback, Sri Lankan flying snake, Painted-lip lizard, Wiegmann's Agama, and Bahir's Fan-throated lizard are the endemic species.