Dominic Couzens travelled around Sri Lanka on a bird-watching tour. His itinerary included a rainforest where you can see all 33 of the island's unique bird species.

Sri Lanka is home to 439 bird species, ... Fluffy-breasted and olive brown in color, this bird was formally described by a British administrator, E.L. Layard, ...

Young birder Lahiru Walpita begins most of his days at dawn by scanning the skies for seabirds along the coastline in northern Sri Lanka. In July 2024, during one of his routine beach surveys, Walpita ...

Sri Lanka’s largest urban wetland, centered around Lake Diyawanna near Colombo, is home to around 100 species of birds, both migratory and endemic. The extensive reed beds in the marshy lands ...

Mid-October is when common migratory birds such as the Indian pitta (known as avichchiya in Sinhala) come to Sri Lanka. As it is a bulky bird, many become exhausted and ended up disoriented in many ...

What makes Nepali meditation enthusiast and ornithologist Amano Samarpan 's guide to t he birds of the Indian subcontinent a handy companion on nature treks and trails are the photographs. A ...