රතු මැටි කොරවක්කා/ළය රතු විල් කෙරැළියා (Zapornia fusca)

පහත රට ප්‍රදේශ වල සිට කඳුකරයේ මීටර 1400 ක පමණ උස් මට්ටම් දක්වා වගුරු, කුඹුරු, සහ වෙනත් එවැනි පරිසර පද්ධති වල ඝනව වැවුන ගහකොළ අතර දිවිගෙවන දුර්ලභ දේශීය පක්ෂියෙකි. තවද උත්තර අර්ධගෝලයේ රටවල ශීත සෘතුව බලපැවැත්වෙන කාලයේදී මෙරටට පැමිණෙන සංචාරක රතු මැටි කොරවක්කන්ද සිටින බව හඳුනාගෙන ඇත. ඉතාමත් කුලෑටි පක්ෂියෙකු වන රතු මැටි කොරවක්කා තනි තනි පක්ෂීන් වශයෙන් හෝ ජෝඩු වශයෙන් දිවි ගෙවන අතර, ජූනි සිට සැප්තැම්බර් දක්වා කාලයේ පන් සහ තණකොළ උපයෝගි කරගෙන වගුරු බිමක පොළොව මත මනාව ගහකොළ වලින් ආවරනය වූ ස්ථානයක හෝ වතුර මත පාවෙන ලෙසට සාදන කූඩුවක බිත්තර 3 සිට 6 දක්වා ප්‍රමාණයක් දමා අභිජනනය කරයි.

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Pied Wheatear (Oenanthe pleschanka)

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 often oscillating the tail up and down. It feeds on small ground insects. Pied Wheatear breeds in Central Palearctic and winters in East Africa to Middle East. 

*G.M. Henry in 16 November 1943 observed an exhausted female bird in its winter plumage in a Colombo garden probably after arriving presumably from India. He has confirmed his identification after comparing his notes and sketches he had taken during many minutes of his observations with specimens at the British Natural History Museum. (Henry G.M. 1998: 380) There is another sight record of Pied Wheatear on passage between Sri Lanka and Maldives islands (Repley S.D. 1982: 471). 

Single female bird reported by Ravi Dharshana with photographic evidence on 9th January of 2025 at Port City - Colombo is probably the third record of Pied Wheatear in Sri Lanka.

Common Tern/අළු මුහුදුලිහිණියා/පොදු මුහුදුලිහිණියා [Alu Muhudhulihiniya/Podhu Muhudulihiniya] (Sterna hirundo)

Common winter migrants to offshore waters and coastal areas. Some birds also breed on offshore islands.  It keeps in small to large flocks and feeds entirely of marine life, mostly fish and also crustaceans and molluscs. 

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Cyphostemma setosum

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

Flower Size: 0.3-0.5 cm

Lindernia hyssopioides

 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. 

Utricularia caerulea

 An indigenous terrestrial herb of wet grasslands, shallow soil overlaying rocks, stream sides and damp open vegetations from sea level to 2300 m elevations. Flowering more or less throughout the year. 

Flower Size: 2 mm across, 6 mm long

Oriental Pratincole/මහා ලිහිණි ඔලෙය්යා/පෙරදිගු ජවසැරියා [Maha Lihini Oleiya/Peradigu Javasariya] (Glareola maldivarum)

An uncommon breeding resident locally occurs in dry open grounds and grasslands of coastal areas and tank edges of dry lowlands, supplemented by winter migrants, sometime in large numbers. It lives as small to large flocks. Oriental Pratincole is crepuscular in habits and during the day time spends resting on the ground or running here and there in a plover-like manner. It feeds on flying insects like beetles, moths, termites. etc. on the wing during the early morning and evening, usually as flocks. It breeds from March to July by laying two eggs on ground without any nest, but usually on a dried cow-pat.

 

කඳුලැස්ස/Indian Sundew (Drosera indica)

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

Canscora heteroclita

 An indigenous slender herb common in exposed, damp, grassy places, usually among rocky outcrops in the northern, western and eastern parts of the dry lowlands and in the dry intermediate region.  Flowering from October to February.