An endemic and rather uncommon shy bird occurs locally in fast flowing mountain streams and ponds in the dense jungles and undergrowth of plantations from mid hills to higher hills. It lives as pairs and active at dawn and late into dusk.
Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush feeds mainly on insects. But it also hunts frogs, geckos and such small animals. The breeding season is from January to May and it build a deep cup shape nest with large mass of green moss, twigs and dead leaves, lined with fine rootlets, fibres etc. The nest usually placed on a ledge or in a crevices of a rock beside a torrent or waterfall, but sometimes in a fork of a tree or on a stump in forest or forest borders where it lays one or two eggs.
