Black-naped Oriole (Oriolus chinensis)

Rare winter migrant to forests, plantations, and wooded gardens from lowlands to the hills. While wintering in Sri Lanka, the Black-naped Oriole occurs mainly as solitary birds and feeds on berries and insects in the canopy. It breeds in SE Russia, northeastern China, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, and the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and wintering mainly in northeastern part of the India and peninsular regions as well as Bangladesh. 

කහ කුරුල්ලා (Oriolus xanthornus)

 පහතරට සිට කඳුකරයේ මධ්‍යම ප්‍රදේශය දක්වා වනාන්තර, ගෙවතු සහ වෙනත් එවැනි ගස් කොලන් සහිත ප්‍රදේශ වල සුලභව හමුවන දේශීය පක්ෂියෙකි කහ කුරුල්ලා. ජෝඩු වශයෙන් හෝ කුඩා පවුල් රංචු වශයෙන් ගසින් ගසට ඉගිලෙමින් පළතුරු සහ කෘමීන් ආහාරයට ගන්නා කහ කුරුල්ලන් ඔක්තෝබර් සිට මැයි දක්වා කාලයේ අභිජනනයේ යෙදේ.

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Slender-billed Oriole (Annotated checklist of vagrant Orioles (Family: Oriolidae) of Sri Lanka)

      Birds that appear outside their normal range are known as vagrants. This post listed up to date published sight records of the single *unconfirmed vagrant of the family Oriolidae (Orioles ) in Sri Lanka.

      1) Slender-billed Oriole (Oriolus tenuirostris)

Single sight record at Bundala available according to the Kotagama S. & Ratnavira G (Kotagama S. & Ratnavira G. 2010: 274 Quoting CBCN 2002, Dec: 250). A sight record of single bird on 31^st December 2003 at Bundala national park is listed in Appendix 2 (http://www.ceylonbirdclub.org/Appendix-II.pdf) of CBC under the criteria of the report ‘lacks sufficient diagnostic detail or, where necessary, sufficient comparison with ‘confusion’ species or subspecies; and there is therefore doubt as to the identification of the bird concerned’. Neither 2002 nor 2003 annual reviews of CBC notes contain both sight records mentioned above (Siriwardana, U., 2003 & Warakagoda, D., 2004)

References:
Kotagama, S., Ratnavira, G. 2010. An illustrated Guide to the Birds of Sri Lanka. Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka, Colombo.
Siriwardana, U., 2003. Report from the Ceylon Bird Club for 2002. Loris, 23(3&4), 36-39.
Warakagoda, D., 2004. Report from the Ceylon Bird Club for 2003 Loris, 23(5&6), 36-41

*Species for which there are only one or two sight records exist categorized here as unconfirmed vagrants. Problematic records without sufficient details are also included. 

කහ කුරුල්ලා[Kaha Kurulla]/Black-hooded Oriole/Black-headed Oriole (Oriolus xanthornus ceylonensis)

Black-hooded Oriole is a common breeding resident of the country inhabiting forests, gardens and such wooded places from lowlands to mid hills. It feeds on fruits and insects by flying from tree to tree usually as pairs or as small family parties. The breeding season lasts from October to May. 

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