by Zanita Careem A new bird species endemic to Sri Lanka and Islands in the Palk Strait named in Sinhala as Hanuman Oleviya and Hanuman Plover in English were identified by Dr. Sampath Seneratne of ...

Young birder Lahiru Walpita begins most of his days at dawn by scanning the skies for seabirds along the coastline in ...

As migratory birds of all shapes and shades start flocking to Sri Lanka for the northern hemisphere winter, prominent local environmental lawyer and naturalist Jagath Gunawardena prepares to once ...

The book on Sri Lankan birds is a 122 page volume giving scientific names of the various bird species as well over 120 colourful photos of birds. Professional biologists specializing in birds, visited ...

Sri Lanka has had its difficulties in recent years. A long civil war was followed by the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, a terrorist attack in 2019, the Covid pandemic and a collapse of its economy in ...