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SRI LANKA CHECKLIST E = Endemics M = Migrants R = Residents PHEASANTS, JUNGLEFOWL etc. PIGEONS & DOVES (cont.) CUCKOOS (cont.) Painted Francolin Eurasian Collared Dove Emerald Cuckoo Grey Francolin Common Emerald Dove Banded Bay Cuckoo Rain Quail Orange-breasted Green Pigeon Grey-bellied Cuckoo Blue-breasted Quail Sri Lanka Green Pigeon Fork-tailed Drongo-Cuckoo Jungle Bush Quail Yellow- footed Green Pigeon Common Hawk-Cuckoo Sri Lanka Spurfowl Green Imperial Pigeon Lesser Cuckoo Sri Lanka Junglefowl Indian Cuckoo Indian Peafowl FROGMOUTHS Common Cuckoo Sri Lanka Frogmouth DUCKS CRAKES & RAILS Fulvous Whistling Duck NIGHTJARS Slaty-legged Crake Lesser Whistling Duck Great-eared Nightjar Slaty-breasted Rail Greylag Goose Grey Nightjar Water Rail Ruddy Shelduck Jerdon’s Nightjar Corn Crake Comb Duck Indian Nightjar White-breasted Waterhen Cotton Teal Baillon's Crake Gadwall SWIFTS Ruddy Crake Wigeon Indian Swiftlet Watercock Indian Spot-billed Duck Brown-backed Needletail Grey-headed Swamphen Northern Shoveller Asian Palm Swift Common Moorhen Northern Pintail Alpine Swift Common Coot Garganey Fork-tailed Swift Common Teal House Swift STONE CURLEWS Tufted Duck Indian Stone Curlew TREE SWIFTS Great Thick-knee GREBES Crested Tree Swift Little Grebe STILTS & AVOCETS COUCALS & MAKHOHAS Pied Avocet FLAMINGOES Green-billed Coucal Black-winged Stilt Greater Flamingo Greater Coucal Sirkeer Malkoha PLOVERS & LAPWINGS PIGEONS & DOVES Red-faced Malkoha Pacific Golden Plover Rock Pigeon Blue-faced Malkoha Grey Plover Sri Lanka Wood Pigeon Common Ringed Plover Pale-capped Wood Pigeon CUCKOOS Little Ringed Plover Oriental Turtle Dove Chestnut-winged Cuckoo Kentish Plover Spotted Dove Jacobin (Pied Crested) Cuckoo Lesser Sand Plover Red Collared Dove Asian Koel Large Sand Plover SRI LANKA CHECKLIST PLOVERS & LAPWINGS (cont.) SHOREBIRDS (cont.) STORKS (cont.) Yellow-wattled Lapwing Curlew Sandpiper White Stork Grey-headed Lapwing Broad-billed Sandpiper Black-necked Stork Red-wattled Lapwing Ruff Lesser Adjutant PAINTED SNIPE BUTTONQUAIL CORMORANTS Greater Painted Snipe Small Button Quail Little Cormorant Barred Buttonquail Indian Cormorant JACANAS Great Cormorant Pheasant-tailed Jacana CRAB PLOVER Crab Plover DARTERS SHOREBIRDS Oriental Darter Eurasian Woodcock PRATINCOLES Wood Snipe Indian Courser IBIS & SPOONBILLS Pintail Snipe Collared Pratincole Glossy Ibis Swinhoe's Snipe Oriental Pratincole Black-headed Ibis Common Snipe Small Pratincole Eurasian Spoonbill Great Snipe Jack Snipe GULLS EGRETS Western Black-tailed Godwit Sooty Gull Little Egret Bar-tailed Godwit Heuglin’s Gull Western Reef Heron Whimbrel Pallas’s Gull Great Egret Eurasian Curlew Brown-headed Gull Intermediate (Yellow-billed) Egret Spotted Redshank Common Black-headed Gull Grey Heron Common Redshank Slender-billed Gull Purple Heron Common Greenshank Gull-billed Tern Eastern Cattle Egret Marsh Sandpiper Caspian Tern Indian Pond Heron Green Sandpiper Lesser Crested Tern Chinese Pond Heron Wood Sandpiper Great Crested Tern Striated Heron Terek Sandpiper Sandwich Tern Black-crowned Night Heron Common Sandpiper Common Tern Yellow Bittern Turnstone Little Tern Cinnamon Bittern Red Knot Saunders's Tern Black Bittern Sanderling Whiskered Tern Little Stint White-winged Black Tern PELICANS Temminck's Stint Spot-billed Pelican Long-toed Stint STORKS Sharp-tailed Sandpiper Painted Stork OSPREY Dunlin Asian Openbill Osprey Black Stork Woolly-necked Stork SRI LANKA CHECKLIST EAGLES & HAWKS TROGONS WOODPECKERS (cont.) Jerdon’s Baza Malabar Trogon Streak-throated Woodpecker Black Baza Black-rumped Flameback Oriental Honey Buzzard HOOPOE Red-backed (Lesser Sri L) Flameback Black-shouldered Kite Common Hoopoe Crimson-backed (Gtr Sri L) Flameback Black Kite White-naped Woodpecker Brahminy Kite BEE-EATERS White-bellied Sea Eagle Asian Little Green Bee-eater FALCONS Grey-headed Fishing Eagle Blue-tailed Bee-eater Lesser Kestrel Crested Serpent Eagle European Bee-eater Common Kestrel Western Marsh Harrier Chestnut-headed Bee-eater Red-necked (Red--headed) Falcon Pallid Harrier Amur Falcon Pied Harrier ROLLERS Oriental Hobby Montagu's Harrier Indian Roller Peregrine Falcon Crested Goshawk Dollarbird Shaheen (Peregrine) Falcon Shikra Besra Sparrowhawk KINGFISHERS PARROTS Eurasian Sparrowhawk Common Kingfisher Sri Lanka Hanging Parrot Himalayan Buzzard Blue-eared Kingfisher Alexandrine Parakeet Black Eagle Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher Rose-ringed Parakeet Bonelli's Eagle Stork-billed Kingfisher Blossom-headed Parakeet Booted Eagle White-throated Kingfisher Layard's Parakeet Rufous-bellied Eagle Black-capped Kingfisher Changeable (Crested) Hawk-Eagle Pied Kingfisher PITTAS Legge's (Mountain) Hawk-Eagle Indian Pitta HORNBILLS BARN OWLS Sri Lanka Grey Hornbill LARKS Western Barn Owl Malabar Pied Hornbill Jerdon’s Bushlark Ceylon Bay Owl Ashy-crowned Sparrow-Lark BARBETS Oriental Skylark OWLS Brown-headed Barbet Serendib Scops Owl Yellow-fronted Barbet CUCKOOSHRIKES Oriental Scops Owl Sri Lanka Small Barbet Large Cuckooshrike Indian Scops Owl Coppersmith Barbet Black-headed Cuckooshrike Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl Small Minivet Brown Fish Owl WOODPECKERS Orange Minivet Brown Wood Owl Eurasian Wryneck Jungle Owlet Indian Pygmy Woodpecker WOOD-SHRIKES Chestnut-backed Owlet Yellow-crowned Woodpecker Bar-winged Flycatcher-Shrike Brown Boobook (Hawk-Owl) Rufous Woodpecker Sri Lanka Wood Shrike Lesser Yellownape SRI LANKA CHECKLIST MONARCH FLYCATCHERS THRUSHES (cont.) CISTICOLAS (cont.) Indian (Asian) Paradise Flycatcher Indian Blackbird Ashy Prinia Black-naped Monarch Eyebrowed Thrush Jungle Prinia Plain Prinia FANTAILS FLYCATCHERS & ROBINS Common Tailorbird White-browed Fantail Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush Asian Brown Flycatcher BUSH WARBLERS SWALLOWS & MARTINS Brown-breasted Flycatcher Lanceolated Warbler Sand Martin Yellow-rumped Flycatcher Common Grasshopper-warbler Dusky Crag Martin Kashmir Flycatcher Pallas’s Grasshopper-warbler Barn Swallow Dull-blue Flycatcher Broad-tailed Grassbird Hill Swallow Blue-throated Flycatcher Sri Lanka Bush Warbler Wire-tailed Swallow Tickell’s Blue Flycatcher Red-rumped Swallow Blue Rock Thrush REED WARBLERS Sri Lanka Swallow Bluethroat Blyth’s Reed Warbler Streak-throated Swallow Indian Blue Robin Indian Reed Warbler Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin Sykes’s Warbler BULBULS Oriental Magpie-Robin Booted Warbler Black-capped Bulbul White-rumped Shama Red-vented Bulbul Indian Robin LEAF WARBLERS Yellow-eared Bulbul Pied Bushchat Dusky Warbler White-browed Bulbul Greenish Leaf Warbler Yellow-browed Bulbul FAIRY-FLYCATCHERS Green Leaf Warbler Square-tailed Black Bulbul Grey-headed Canary-flycatcher Large-billed Leaf Warbler IORAS LAUGHING-THRUSHES SYLVIID WARBLERS Common Iora Ashy-headed Laughing Thrush Lesser Whitethroat Marshall’s Iora Hume’s Whitethroat GROUND BABBLERS Yellow-eyed Babbler SHRIKES Brown-capped Babbler Brown Shrike Orange-billed Babbler TITS Philippine Shrike Yellow-billed Babbler Asian Grey Tit Bay-backed Shrike Long-tailed Shrike TREE BABBLERS NUTHATCHES Southern Grey Shrike Sri Lanka Scimitar Babbler Velvet-fronted Nuthatch Tawny-bellied Babbler THRUSHES Dark-fronted Babbler FLOWERPECKERS Pied Thrush Thick-billed Flowerpecker Orange-headed Thrush CISTICOLAS White-throated Flowerpecker Spot-winged Thrush Zitting Cisticola Pale-billed Flowerpecker Sri Lanka Scaly Thrush Grey-breasted Prinia SRI LANKA CHECKLIST SUNBIRDS CROWS Purple-rumped Sunbird Sri Lanka Blue Magpie Purple Sunbird House Crow Loten’s Sunbird Indian Jungle Crow WHITE-EYES WAXBILLS & MUNIAS Sri Lanka White-eye Indian Silverbill Oriental White-eye White-rumped Munia Black-throated Munia STARLINGS Scaly-breasted Munia White-faced Starling Tricoloured Munia Chestnut-tailed Starling Purple-backed Starling WAGTAILS & PIPITS Brahminy Starling (Myna) Forest Wagtail Rosy Starling White Wagtail Common Myna White-browed Wagtail Sri Lanka Myna Citrine Wagtail Common Hill Myna Yellow (Grey-headed) Wagtail Grey Wagtail OLD WORLD ORIOLES Richard's Pipit European Golden Oriole Paddyfield Pipit Indian Golden Oriole Tawny Pipit Black-naped Oriole Blyth's Pipit Black-hooded Oriole Olive-backed Pipit Red-throated Pipit ASIAN FAIRY BLUEBIRDS Fairy Bluebird FINCHES Common Rosefinch LEAFBIRDS Golden-fronted Leafbird WEAVERS Jerdon's Leafbird Streaked Weaver Baya Weaver DRONGOES Black Drongo SPARROWS Ashy Drongo House Sparrow White-bellied Drongo Yellow-throated Sparrow Greater Racket-tailed Drongo Sri Lanka Crested Drongo PALAEARCTIC BUNTINGS Black-headed Bunting WOODSWALLOWS Red-headed Bunting Ashy Woodswallow SRI LANKA CHECKLIST MAMMALS REPTILES Indian Flying Fox Indian Python Toque Macaque Green Vine Snake Hanuman Langur Brown Vine Snake Purple-faced Leaf Monkey Buff-striped Keelback Golden Jackal Boulenger's Bronzeback Sloth Bear Common Bronze Back Otter Rat Snake Toddy Cat The Checkered Keelback s Golden Palm Civet Indian Cobra Small Civet Russell's Viper Indian Grey Mongoose Green Pit Viper Indian Brown Mongoose Common House Gecko s Ruddy Mongoose Common Skink Stripe-necked Mongoose Green Garden Lizard Jungle Cat Painted-lip Lizards Leopard Whistling Lizard Asian Elephant Black-cheek Lizard Wild Pig Common Garden Lizard White-spotted Mouse-deer Sri Lanka Kangaroo Lizard Spotted Deer Lowland Kangaroo Lizard Sambar Pygmy Lizard Indian Muntjac Fan-throat Lizard Water Buffalo Rhino-horn Lizard Layard’s Striped Squirrel Hump-nosed Lizard Palm Squirrel Land Monitor Dusky Striped Squirrel Water Monitor Giant Flying Squirrel a Hard-shelled Terrapin Giant Squirrel Soft-shelled a Lesser Bandicoot-Rat Red-eared Slider Greater Bandicoot-Rat Indian Star Tortoise Indian House Mouse Saltwater or Estuarine crocodile Roof Rat Mugger or Marsh crocodile Crested Porcupine Black-naped Hare.
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    Sri Lanka Photographic Tour Prospective Bird List E = Endemic species Essp = Endemic subspecies A Little Grebe Tachybaptus ruficollis Little Cormorant Phalacrocorax niger Indian Cormorant Phalacrocorax fuscicollis Great Cormorant Phalacrocorax carbo Oriental Darter Anhinga melanogaster Spot-billed Pelican Pelecanus philippensis Lesser Whistling Duck Dendrocygna javanica Cotton Pygmy-goose Nettapus coromandelianus Common Teal Anas crecca Northern Pintail Anas acuta Gargeney Anas querquedula Shoveler Anas clypeata Greater Flamingo Phoenicopterus ruber Little Egret Egretta garzetta Western Reef Egret Egretta gularis Intermediate Egret Egretta intermedia Grey Heron Ardea cinerea Purple Heron Ardea purpurea Great Egret Casmerodius alba Cattle Egret Bubulcus ibis Indian Pond Heron Ardeola grayii Striated Heron Butorides striatus Black-crowned Night Heron Nycticorax nycticorax Yellow Bittern Ixobrychus sinensis Cinnamon Bittern Ixobrychus cinnamomeus Black Bittern Ixobrychus flavicollis Glossy Ibis Plegadis falcinellus Black-headed Ibis Threskiornis melanocephalus Eurasian Spoonbill Platalea leucorodia Painted Stork Mycteria leucocephala Asian Openbill Anastomus oscitans ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ WINGS ● 1643 N. Alvernon Way Ste. 109 ● Tucson ● AZ ● 85712 ● www.wingsbirds.com (866) 547 9868 Toll free US + Canada ● Tel (520) 320-9868 ● Fax (520) 320 9373 Sri Lanka Photographic Prospective Bird List… 2 Woolly-necked Stork Ciconia episcopus Black-necked Stork Ephippiorhynchus