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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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2019

In such a case, you might opt to book an eastbound flight, or a series of flights, from Lisbon to Sao Tome and Principe, Ghana, Rwanda, Uganda, then Sri Lanka, Thailand, Borneo, PNG, Tahiti, Ecuador, Guyana and finally to Costa Rica…. What if you were truly eccentric? Focus on Bwindi Impenetrable Forest (350 sp.) for savanna species.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Dragan]: What puts Philip Briggs’s Sri Lanka into a class of its own is a special emphasis on nature and wildlife-watching tourism. This is the title for the person who lives for both literature and nature.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2024

Common Tailorbirds are found in South and Southeast Asia, particularly in India, Sri Lanka, and Malaysia, where they inhabit gardens, forests, and urban areas. These nests are relatively small, usually around 10-15 centimeters in diameter, and are often hidden in dense foliage to protect against predators. Tailor-made, indeed!

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2024

I initially wrote “second” instead, having seen a Pallas’s Grasshopper Warbler in Sri Lanka, but then realized it’s not a Locustella. This was a lifer I’d been hoping to see for a while, and my first Locustella. sure was a River Warbler , but the missing 0.1%

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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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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2024

For example, one paper states that in Sri Lanka’s cloud forest, only about 3% of all trees have suitable cavities. Not a great situation given the chronic housing shortage in suitable environments.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2017

Sri Lanka Thrush Zoothera imbricata [ map ] [ my records ]. Scaly Thrush is split into four species, following Rasmussen and Anderton (2005): White’s Thrush Zoothera aurea; Scaly Thrush Zoothera dauma; Nilgiri Thrush Zoothera neilgherriensis; and Sri Lanka Thrush Zoothera imbricata. Reference: Rasmussen, P.C.,

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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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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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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2025

There are about 123 species of weavers worldwide, spreading over 16 genera, but more than half of the species are in just one genus, Ploceus. This includes the protagonist of this post, the Streaked Weaver.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

India, Sri Lanka) because it takes time and nerves to get accustomed to local driving styles and unofficial rules. In other destinations, you may prefer a car with a driver (e.g.

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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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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Recent studies in Sri Lanka have revealed that, upon sighting a predator, a drongo will imitate the alarm calls of at least 4 other bird species (babblers, laughing thrushes, bulbuls, and others), as well as the call given by the specific predator, i.e. a giant squirrel or eagle.

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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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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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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2024

The most memorable of those moments for me was when I saw a Daurian Starling in an urban park when I lived in Sri Lanka (see my personal blog ), a rare vagrant on the island which, as I found out the following day, had been seen by others for a few days already. Plus it feels as if you twitched it even if you didn’t.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Growing up in Namibia, South Africa, and Sri Lanka provided the perfect setting for this interest. By Luca Feuerriegel Family holidays to nature reserves and the abundance of nature books including bird guides at home paved the way for Luca to be a committed birder by the time he was in his early teens. before starting his MSc.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2025

So, no, I did not fly 7 hours from Shanghai to Sri Lanka just to bird for 2 hours. This is just a warning not to expect too many rarities in this first of several posts on a Sri Lanka trip – there is more to come.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2024

After my recent post on my 12 favourite species in South Africa, I decided to turn to Sri Lanka, where I lived after most of my youth in South Africa. As this country is way smaller than South Africa and I also did not live there for as many years, I thought it would be easier to limit myself to 10 species.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2025

Eurasian Wryneck, Shanghai, April 19, 2023 Dusky Thrush, Shanghai, April 19, 2023 Chestnut-headed Bee-eater, Kithulgala, Sri Lanka, March 16, 2025 Photos by Kai Pflug… Source

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Though trips to Borneo, Argentina and Sri Lanka gave plenty of new ticks, I most enjoyed birding in Africa. By the 90s I hadn’t lost my appetite for seeing new birds, but I did enjoy going back to places where I could identify the birds myself, without being told what they were.

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MAY 23, 2025

Frankly, some part of my brain still thinks of the Indian Peafowl as not being a real, wild bird but rather a decorative element of bird parks and a source of funny-looking feathers, to be won as a prize in low-budget lotteries.

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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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