Perched Poems: Avifauna in Sri Lanka

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Indian Paradise Flycatcher

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Indian White Eye

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

White-bellied Sea Eagle

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Changeable Hawk-eagle

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Asian Green Bee-eater

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Hanuman Plover

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Orange Minivet

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Little ringed plover

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Great Thick-knee

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Yellow-wattled Lapwing

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Orange-breasted Green-Pigeon

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Eurasian Hoopoe

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Jacobin cuckoo/Pied cuckoo

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Indian Robin

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Jerdon’s Leafbird

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Asian Emerald Dove

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Yellow-Browed BULBUL

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Asian Openbill

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

More Kingfishers

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Flaming Eyes of a Greater Coucal

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

A Hazel-eyed White-Breasted Kingfisher

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

White-BreASTed Kingfisher

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

A Pied Kingfisher in Full Flight

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

A Pied Kingfisher Regurgitating

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

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Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Greater Coucal

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Purple-Rumped Sunbirds

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Loten’s sunbird 

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Pied Kingfisher

Featured Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Sri Lanka Grey Hornbill and Malabar Pied Hornbill

March 19, 2026 Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Black-capped Bulbul

March 7, 2026March 7, 2026 Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Yellow-fronted Barbet

February 16, 2026 Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Sri Lanka Hanging Parrot II

February 3, 2026February 3, 2026 Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Sri Lanka Hanging-Parrot

January 29, 2026 Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Asian Brown Flycatcher

January 27, 2026January 27, 2026 Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Bar-winged Flycatcher Shrike

January 22, 2026January 22, 2026 Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Sri Lanka Woodshrike

January 21, 2026January 21, 2026 Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Indian White-Eye

January 21, 2026 Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Chestnut-headed Bee-eaters

January 19, 2026January 19, 2026 Curiosity-driven life (Dilantha Gunawardana)

Chestnut-headed Bee-Eater