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Wild Sri Lanka

10,000 Birds

Throughout the book there are extracts from `A Naturalist’s Journal’, which in the form of a first person commentary take readers to specific habitats in search of the animals to be found there. The author, Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne is one of Sri Lanka’s most high profile wildlife personalities.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

If you want to know what happened on August 31, 1984, I can name at least one event: In the Padang-Sugihan Wildlife Reserve in South Sumatra province, a Large Frogmouth was mobbed by a Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, as described here. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact. of its hunts are successful.

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