10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2012

When he returned to Portugal in disgrace after usurping his position from the rightful governor, Sampayo supposedly took tulip bulbs with him from Sri Lanka. This tale too, however, does not hold up to scrutiny because tulips do not occur in Sri Lanka and the island itself is far from the route Sampayo’s ships should have taken.

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Sri Lanka Kazakhstan Species Endangered Species 98

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2019

Some of those “statistical errors” came as surprises to me, e.g. Cuba, Bolivia, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Thailand (this is also a clear message to their tourism boards to invest more into promoting avitourism).

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Costa Rica Birds Papua New Guinea America 85

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

Sri Lanka (375 / 436). Hence I added the second figure from the Fat Birder – often more up to date. Taking as a rule, the higher figure is more accurate. The Oriental realm. Indonesia (1615 / 1603). Malaysia (702 / 781). Thailand (925 / 948). India (1180 / 1171). The Afrotropics. Uganda (987 / 1083). Kenya (1034 / 1153).

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Sri Lanka Botswana Serbia Species 102

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2017

And in India, when Strycker tied the previous one-year record, his guides Sanu and Harsha took a fair amount of trouble to make sure that a special bird, the Sri Lanka Frogmouth (“nocturnal and not easy to see!”) ( Rothschild’s Swift and Mitred Parakeet , ## 342, 343.). was available as the record-breaker, (#4342).

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Birds Sri Lanka Puffins Peru 73

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2022

Sri Lanka is a ‘must visit country’ for any keen birder. Still, I was thinking and re-thinking: should I write about the Sri Lanka travel guide now, when that country is in an economic tailspin and even its Prime Minister says the economy has “completely collapsed”? Where to look for the birds?

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Sri Lanka Species Birds Eagles 59

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The chapter on Sri Lanka, where Gooddie combines a vacation with his girlfriend, largely invisible elsewhere in the book, with his search for Indian Pitta, is to my taste one of the best parts of the book. That comment jumped out at me with an almost electric shock.

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Hunters Birds Sri Lanka Species 97

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2020

As Bill Oddie noticed in his foreword to ‘Wild Sri Lanka’ (2nd edition) by Gehan De Silva Wijeyeratne, this island paradise is probably the only country in the world where almost all books on wildlife were authored by a single person. Even the claim that Sri Lanka is the world’s best safari destination outside of Africa comes from him.

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Sri Lanka Wildlife Leopards Whales 104

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Aisles of exhibitors tempted visitors with birding trips to such far-flung locations as Colombia, Kenya, and Sri Lanka, and grown men and women got all kid-in-a-candy-store at the optics booths. When field trips wrapped up, it was time to head back to the Expo Center.

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Birds Sri Lanka Owls Philadelphia 40