Beautiful birds of Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka Junglefowl-National Bird of Sri Lanka I am going to take a break between posting popular durga puja pandals...and share birds of Sri Lanka in this post. These are beautiful birds and even more exciting because many of the birds found in Sri Lanka are endemic, and not found anywhere else. Out of a total of 482 birds in Sri Lanka, 34 are endemic species and are typically found in forest reserves such as Sinharaja NP, Kitulgala rain forest, etc. For bird watchers Sri Lanka is an exciting destination because of the possibility of sighting endemic birds. During her recent trip Soma Jha sighted a number of birds, out of which a few are endemic to Sri Lanka. These pictures have been taken by her. Brown-capped babbler Chestnut-backed owlet Layard's parakeet Orange-billed babbler Red-backed flameback Red-faced Malkoha Sri Lanka Scimitar babbler Sri Lanka blue Magpie Sri Lanka white-eye ...