Birds Check List

Marshes,Mangroves Swamps and Inland and Coastal Lakes. Water Hen(White Breasted,Moor Hen, The Water Cock) Jacana(Pheasant Tailed) Coots(Purple and Common) Bitterns(Black,Yellow,Chestnut and Malay) Herons(Purple,Grey,Little green,Night and Pond) Ducks(Gargeny,Pintail) Teal(Cotton,Whistling) Storks(Open Bill,Ibis,Glossy Ibis,Painted,Indian White Necked, Adjutant,Black Necked Spoon Bill Pelican(Spotted Billed) Cormorants (Little,Small,Shag) Indian Darter Lesser Flamingo Little Grebe Wagtails (Grey,Yellow,Pied) King Fisher (Pied,Common,Small,Stork Billed,White Breasted,Black Backed Purple Lapwing (Red Wattled,Yellow Wattled) Egret (Large,Little,Median) Black Winged Stilts Great Stone Plovers Rails(Blue Banded) and Crakes (Banded,Ruddy's) Many types of Hawks Tank Eagles(Sea,Grey Headed) Eagles(Serpent, Crested hawk,Booted) Sparrow Hawks and Shikras KitesBrahamini,Black Wing,Pariah) Migratory birds Between December and April to Coastal Lakes. Sand pipers(Common,Green, Curlew,Wood,Terek and Marsh) Plovers(Asiatic Golden,Kentish,Little Ringed,Sand) Godwits, Curlews and Stone Curlews Redshank and Greenshank Stints(Little and Long-Toed) Snipes(Painted,Pintail) Pratincole(Large and Small) Turnstone Whimbrel Tern(Crested,Caspian,Little,White Winged,Gull Billed) Gulls(Brown Headed) Avocet Oyester Catcher Harrier(Marsh,Pied,Pale) Buzzard(Honey) Osprey Kestrel(European) Garden Birds(Standard) Southern Magpie Robin Black Robin Oriole(Black Headed) Iora Bul Bul(Red Vented,White Browed) Mynah Sun Birds(Purple,Purple Rumped,Lotens) Tailor Bird Paradise Flycatcher White Vented Drongo House Crow Common Babbler Ash Dove Koel Rosed Ringed Parakeets Common Coucal Red Backed Woodpecker Scops Owl,Brown Hawk Owl and Shikra Dry Zone Forests and Well Wooded Dry Zone and mid Country Gardens. Hornbill(Malabar Pied,Grey) Peafowl Malkohas(Blue Faced,Red Faced) Cuckoos(Indian,Indian Plaintive,Pied & Crested,Drongo) Sourthern Sirkeer Bul Bul(Black Capped,White Browed) Fly Catcher(Brown,Kashmir Red Breasted, Fan-Tail,Orange Breasted Blue) Bee Eater(Blue Tailed,Chestnut Headed,Green) Roller(Indian) Parakeets(Blossom Headed,Alexandra) Chloropsis(Jerdon's,Gold Fronted) Barbets(Brown Headed,Ceylon Small,Coppersmith) Woodpeckers(Yellow Naped,Black Backed Yellow,Ceylon Pigmy,Yellow Fronted Pied) Hoopoe Indian Pitta Babblers(White Throated,Yellow Eyed,Brown Capped) Warbler(Green Tree,Great Reed,Fan-Tail) Prinias(Ashy Headed,White Browed,Franklyn's) Weaver(Baya,Streaked) Shrikes(Brown,Philliphine,Wood) Pigeons(Orange Breasted Green,Pompadour,Bronze Winged Green,Green Imperial) Large Cuckoo Shrike/Black Headed Cuckoo Shrike Nightjar Eagles(Serpent,Crested Hawk,Grey Headed Fishing,Mountain Hawk,Black,White Bellied Sea,) Kites(Brahaminy and Black Winged) Owls(Brown Wood,Fishing,Forest Eagle,Jungle Owlet,Barn) Drongo(Racquet Tailed) Ashy Swallow Shrike,Swallow-Common and Red Rumped Quails(Blue Breasted,Bustard) Larks(Bush),Pipits(Richard's and Indian) Munias(Black Headed,White Backed) Forest Wagtail Minivet(Small and Large) Flowerpeckers and White-Eyes Ceylon Shama Brahaminy Mynah Rosy Paster Birds of the Mountains and Rain Forests. Highlighted Birds are Endemic to Sri Lanka Fly Catcher(Grey,Dusky Blue) Shrike(Pied) Woodpecker(Scally Bellied,Rufous) Barbet(Yellow Fronted) Eagle(Mountain Hawk,Crested Goshawk,Black,Rufous Bellied Hawk) Owls(Chestnut Backed Owlet,Collard Scops,Brown Wood) Pigeons(Wood) Parakeet(Layard’s) Drongo(Crested) Grackele(Ceylon, Common) Thrush(Whistling) Starling(White Headed) Roller(Broad Billed) Magpie(Blue) Trogan(Ceylon) Babbler(Ashy Headed, Rufous, Black Fronted,Scimitar) Legge’s Flowerpecker Ceylon Hill White Eye Hill Munia Pied Bush Chat Ceylon Black-Bird Velvet Fronted Blue Nuthatch Bul Bul(Black,Yellow Eared,Yellow Browed) Grey Tit Green Billed Coucal Spotted Wing Trush Ceylon Lorikeet Hill Nightjar Ceylon Frogmouth Ceylon Warbler