You might never have thought of going to Sri Lanka for bird-watching, but it’s always a good idea to heed the advice of the locals – even the ancient ones. About 5,000 years ago, at what is ...

Go on a tour around the island, and discover the bright plumages of birds as they hide among the emerald canopies of the trees. Blessed with a rich biodiversity, Sri Lanka has a thriving avifauna ...

Sri Lanka has published its latest assessment of the conservation status of birds, showing a worrying increase in the number of species considered threatened since the last assessment was ...

British company John Beaufoy Publishing has published a significantly revised third edition of A Naturalist’s Guide to the Birds of Sri Lanka. Previous editions of this pocket guide have served ...

Picking up a rather underrated medium, Nirosh Perera is one of the very few soft pastel artists in the island – his focus being the many colourful birds of Sri Lanka. A wildlife enthusiast, a large ...

Initiated in mid-2020, this groundbreaking project aims to fill existing data gaps regarding migratory bird movements. As Sri Lanka marks the final landmass along the Central Asian Flyway ...