Biodiversity of Sri Lanka

Very rare vagrant* in open stony habitats, where it perches on stones, clods and the like, and flies low over the ground. It has a habit of ...

Common winter migrants to offshore waters and coastal areas. Some birds also breed on offshore islands.  It keeps in small to large flocks a...

 An indigenous herbaceous scrambler of open sandy vegetations, usually near the coast including salt flats but not on dunes.  Flower Size : ...

 An indigenous herb very common in paddy fields and borders of ponds in the wet lowlands and of the wet hill country up to 550 m elevations....

 An indigenous terrestrial herb of wet grasslands, shallow soil overlaying rocks, stream sides and damp open vegetations from sea level to 2...

An uncommon breeding resident locally occurs in dry open grounds and grasslands of coastal areas and tank edges of dry lowlands, supplemente...

An indigenous  small herb of moist places near paddy fields, swamps, ditches, shallow pools and wet  patanas.  Common in lowlands and someti...

 An indigenous slender herb common in exposed, damp, grassy places, usually among rocky outcrops in the northern, western and eastern parts ...

An indigenous herb of damp grassy places close to water sources, ponds or paddy fields in both dry and wet zones. Rather rare and flowering ...

  Common winter migrant to salt or brackish lagoons, salt-pans, estuaries and even freshwater tanks in the northern areas of the country. Oc...

  An indigenous herb fairly common along roadsides and open country among short grass in the dry zone and in open grassy slopes of the wet l...

 Rather rare winter migrants to the scrub lands, mainly in the coastal areas of dry lowlands. It is a shy bird, often seen hopping, hidden a...

වියලි කලාපීය කලපු, ලේවායන්, වෙරළබඩ විශාල වැව්, වැලි තුඩු සහ ගංගා මෝය ආදියෙහි සුලභ ලෙස හමුවන සංචාරක පක්ෂියෙකි. තෙත් කලාපීය වෙරළබඩ ප්‍රදේශ වල ...

දිවයිනේ පහත රට ප්‍රදේශ වල තණකොල සහ එවන් මිටි ශාක සහිත නොගැඹුරු දියපාරවල් ඉවුරු වල සහ මඩ වගුරු අද්දර තරමක් දුර්ලභ ලෙස හමුවන සංචාරක පක්ෂියෙකි....

 පහත රට වියලි කලාපීය සහ කඳුකර විවෘත භූමි, තෘණ භූමි, කුඹුරු සහ පතන් බිම් වල එතරම් සුලභ නොවන ලෙස හමුවන දේශීය පක්ෂියෙකි. පහත රට තෙත් කලාපීය ප්‍...

An uncommon breeding resident inhabiting dense vegetation of marshes, paddy fields and other such areas from lowlands to about 1400 m altitu...

A very common, non-venomous , terrestrial snake occurs in secondary forests and anthropogenic areas from low country to the hills up to abo...

Locally fairly common breeding resident of open wooded areas, scrubs, sand dunes, grasslands and forests from dry lowlands to drier mid hill...

 Rather rare winter migrant inhabiting forests, lightly wooded areas and open country throughout the island. It is mostly a solitary bird th...

 Very rare vagrant bird with few sight records in Sri Lanka . Blyth's Swift breeds in Himalayas from Murree Hills to Assam valley and ...