Bird World in Bali as City of Culture

One of the provinces in Indonesia are very well known by other countries is Bali. Bali is an island in Indonesia with the position of 8 ° 25'23 "S 115 ° 14'55" E Co., is the most western island group of the Lesser Sunda Islands, lies between Java to the west and Lombok to the east. one of the provinces with the provincial capital at Denpasar located in the south of bali-birdpulau.
The population recorded in 2005 was 3.151 million people, this island is home to the majority of Hindus in Indonesia. A total of 93.18% of Bali adheres to Balinese Hinduism, while most of the rest are Muslims. Bali is the largest tourist destination in the country and is renowned for the arts, including dance, sculpture, painting, metal working skins, and music.
The island of Bali lies the 3.2 km (2 mi) east of Java, and about 8 degrees south of the equator. East to west, the length of the island is about 153 km (95 miles) wide and about 112 km (69 miles) north to south, the land area is 5,632 km ². The highest point is Mount Agung at 3142 m (10 308 feet), an active volcano that last erupted in March 1963. Mountains cover center to the eastern side, with Mount Agung the easternmost peak. Mount Batur (1717 m) is also still active; eruption 30,000 years ago was one of the largest volcanic events known on Earth.
In the south the ground down to form the alluvial plain, watered by shallow, north-south flowing rivers, drier in the dry season and overflowing during periods of heavy rain. The longest of these rivers, Sungai Ayung, is also the longest on the island (approximately 75 km).
The main town is the provincial capital and largest city, Denpasar, near the south coast. Its population is about 300,000. The second largest city in the old colonial capital of Bali is, Singaraja, which is located on the north coast and is home to about 100,000 people. Other important cities include the beach resort, Kuta, which is practically part of Denpasar urban areas, and Ubud, which is north of Denpasar, and known as the cultural center on the island.
There is a coastal road around the island, as well as three major two-lane arteries that cross the central mountains on track to reach 1750 m in height (in Penelokan). Minor road branching from the main highway. Ngurah Rai Bypass is a four-lane expressway that partly surrounds the Denpasar and enables cars to travel quickly in the densely populated south. Bali has no railway lines.
The island is surrounded by coral reefs. Coast in the south tend to have white sand while those in the north and west have black sand. Padangbai coastal town in the south east has both. Bali has no major waterways, although the Ho River is navigable by boat dinghy. Black sand beach between the tide and Klatingdukuh being developed for tourism, but apart from the temple of Tanah Lot on the beach, they have not been used for significant tourism.
To the east, the Lombok Strait separates Bali from Lombok and marks the biogeographical division between the fauna of the ecozone Indomalayan and distinctly different fauna of Australasia. Transition is known as the Wallace Line, named after Alfred Russel Wallace, who first proposed transition zone between two major biomes. When sea levels dropped during the Pleistocene ice age, Bali is connected with Java and Sumatra and mainland Asia and Asia share the fauna, but the water in the Lombok Strait continued to keep Lombok and the Lesser Sunda archipelago isolated.
Bali has around 280 species of birds, including endangered Bali Starling. Only high-level predator of the island endemic, the Bali tiger, became extinct in the 1930s.
The West Bali National Park, located on the north western side of the island, is a refuge for wildlife such as the Sunda Pangolin, Indian deer, Mouse-deer, Leopard Cat, Black Giant Squirrel, and several species of monkeys and leaf monkeys