| If your are into bird watching,
please bring along your binoculars and note book. |
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A frequent visitor to Sunnyside is the Ceylon 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. |
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B
Common Babbler (Seven Sisters)
Scimitar Babbler
Brown Headed Barbet
Yellow Fronted Barbet
Red Vented Bulbul
C
Village Crow
Common Coucal (Crow-Pheasant)
Ceylon Hawk Cuckoo (Brain Fever Bird)
Jerdon's Chloropsis
D
Spotted Dove
E
Serpent Eagle
Cattle Egret
F
Flowerpecker
Fantail Flycatcher
Grey Headed Flycatcher
Kashmir Flycatcher
Orange Breasted Flycatcher
Paradise Flycatcher |
G
Common Grackle
J
Ceylon Jungle Fowl
K
Common Kingfisher
White Breasted Kingfisher
M
Common Mynah
Little Minivet
Orange Minivet
Spotted Munia
N
Velvet Fronted Blue Nuthatch
O
Black Headed Oriole
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P
Wood Pigeon
Indian Pitta
Layards Parakeet?
R
Black Robin
Southern Magpie Robin
S
Brown Shrike
Pied Shrike
Loten's Sunbird
T
Grey Tit
W
Grey Wagtail
Forest Wagtail
Red Backed Woodpecker
Yellow Napped Woodpecker
White-eye
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