Sunnyside Holiday Bungalow Ella Sri Lanka


Bird Watching:  Ella, Sri Lanka

If your are into bird watching, please bring along your binoculars and note book.  

A frequent visitor to Sunnyside is the Sri Lanka Jungle Fowl with its fiery colours and awesome call.  The hen is less attractive, but interesting to observe. In case you didn't know, the Jungle Fowl is an endemic bird and the "National Bird of Sri Lanka". The beauty of this bird has also been mentioned in early "Sandeshaya" poetry.

The following birds have been identified at Sunnyside and surrounding areas of Ella, Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka Jungle Fowl
B
Yellow Billed Babbler (Seven Sisters)
Sri Lanka Scimitar Babbler
Brown Headed Barbet
Sri Lanka Yellow Fronted Barbet
Red Vented Bulbul

C
Village Crow
Greater Coucal
Common Hawk-cuckoo (Brainfever Bird)

D
Spotted Dove
White-bellied Drongo

E
Crested Serpent Eagle
Cattle Egret

F
Pale Billed Flowerpecker
White Browed Fantail Flycatcher
Grey Headed Canary Flycatcher
Kashmir Flycatcher
Sri Lanka Dull Blue Flycatcher
Asian Paradise Flycatcher

H
Sri Lanka Grey Hornbill
Indian Pond Heron

J
Sri Lanka Jungle Fowl

K
Asian Koel
Common Kingfisher
White-throated Kingfisher

L
Jerdon's Leafbird

M
Common Myna
Lesser Hill Myna
Small Minivet
Scarlet Minivet
Scaly-breasted Munia

N
Velvet Fronted Nuthatch

O
Black Headed Oriole



 

P
Sri Lanka Wood Pigeon
Indian Pitta
Sri Lanka Emeraldcollared
Parakeet
Sri Lanka Hangingparrot (Lorikeet)

R
Indian Black Robin
Oriental Magpie Robin

S
Brown Shrike
Pied Shrike
Loten's Sunbird

T
Grey Tit

W
Grey Wagtail
Forest Wagtail
Black Rumped Flame Back (Woodpecker)
Lesser Yellow Napped (Woodpecker)
Oriental White-eye

 

BIRDS OF SRI LANKA
A PICTORIAL GUIDE AND CHECKLIST

By Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne

Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3

Download a A Tally List of the Birds of Sri Lanka from the Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka (FOGSL) website.

 
BIRDS OF SRI LANKA by Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne