Showing posts with label Turdidae. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Turdidae. Show all posts

Thursday, March 4, 2021

කළුකුරුල්ලා/කළු බිම්සැරියා (Turdus simillimus)


 මීටර් 1000 ට වඩා උස කඳුකරයේ පමණක් හමුවන දේශිය පක්ෂියෙකි. වනාන්තර යටිරෝපනයේ, මනාව තුරු ගොමු සහිත ගෙවතු වල මෙන්ම තේ වතු වලද වැඩිවශයෙන් පොළොව මත කොළ රොඩු අතර කෘමීන් සොයමින් හැසිරේ. කෘමීන්ට අමතරව කුඩා ගෙඩි වර්ගද ආහාර කර ගනී. ප්‍රධාන වශයෙන් උදෑසන සහ ගොම්මං යාමයේ ක්‍රියාශීලි වන පක්ෂියෙකි. වසරේ මාර්තු සිට අප්‍රේල් දක්වා සහ බොහෝවිට නැවතත් අගෝස්තු සිට සැප්තැම්බර් දක්වා කාලයේ අභිජනනයේ යෙදේ. ගහක අත්තක කරුවක් මත පාසි, මුල් කැබලි සහ වෙනත් එවැනි කෙඳි වර්ග උපයෝගි කරගනිමින් තරමක් ගැඹුරු කෝප්පයක හැඩය සහිත කූඩුවක් තනා බිත්තර 2 ක් හෝ 3 ක් දමා අභිජනනයේ යෙදේ.

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Monday, March 1, 2021

Pied Thrush/Pied Ground Thrush/ගෝමර වල් අවිච්චියා/ගෝමර තිරාසිකයා[Gomara Wal Awichchiya/Gomara Tirasikaya] (Zoothera wardii)

Rather uncommon winter migrant to forests, ravines and well -wooded gardens in the mid hills and above, arriving in October to November and leaving back to its breeding grounds in the Himalayas about March. Pied Thrush mainly feeds on insects on the ground, turning over the leaves beneath the undergrowth. It also eats berries of tall trees.  

Sunday, April 26, 2015

Vagrant Thrushes (Family: Turdidae) recorded in Sri Lanka

     Birds that appear outside their normal range are known as vagrants. This post summarizes up to date published sight records of vagrants of the family Turdidae (Thrushes ) in Sri Lanka.    

     1) Eyebrowed Thrush [Dark Thrush] (Turdus obscurus)
Graham Speight of UK reported a bird first time on 24th February 1994 at Nuwaraeliya. The same bird was reported by Ole F. Jakobsen in Forktail 10 (February 1995) as having been seen on 5th February 1994 (Hoffmann, T. W., 1995) A sight record of it again reported from Nuwaraeliya in February 2002 (Siriwardana, U., 2003). Another bird observed at Horton plains NP on December 2005 (Sirivardana U. & Warakagoda  D. , 2006). Subsequent sights records are--
References:
Hoffmann, T. W., 1995. Ceylon Bird Club Notes 1994. Loris, 20(5), 226-227.
Siriwardana, U., 2003. Report from the Ceylon Bird Club for 2002. Loris, 23(3&4), 36-39.
Sirivardana U. & Warakagoda  D. , 2006. Report from the Ceylon Bird Club for 2005 Loris 24(3& 4), 24 - 28

Friday, January 31, 2014

Spot-winged Thrush (Zoothera spiloptera)

A rare breeding resident inhabiting undergrowth of forests and well wooded areas from wet lowlands to higher hills. Scarce and local in riverine forests in the dry zone. It feeds on insects, worms, etc mainly on the ground, skulking in the undergrowth while turning over leaf litter. It lives as pairs or as solitary birds. The breeding season is from March to April and again from August to September. It build a nest - an untidy mass of twigs, moss and grass- placed in a crown of tree fern or fork of a sapling where it lays two eggs. 

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Indian Black bird (Turdus simillimus)


A breeding resident restricted to higher hills above 1000m a.s.l. Indian Black bird is an essentially ground bird common in forest undergrowth, well wooded gardens and tea plantations. It feeds on insects among the leaf litter on the ground and also takes berries. Active mostly during the early morning and again in the dusk. Main breeding season is from March to April and probably again from August to September. 

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