10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2024

For example, one paper states that in Sri Lanka’s cloud forest, only about 3% of all trees have suitable cavities. Not a great situation given the chronic housing shortage in suitable environments.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

India, Sri Lanka) because it takes time and nerves to get accustomed to local driving styles and unofficial rules. In other destinations, you may prefer a car with a driver (e.g.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2019

Some of those “statistical errors” came as surprises to me, e.g. Cuba, Bolivia, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Thailand (this is also a clear message to their tourism boards to invest more into promoting avitourism).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2012

Whilst leading a birding tour to Sri Lanka, I spotted a flash of bright white in a lily-choked wetland near Ambalantota in the south-east of this verdant island. A bright flash of white caught my attention in this lilly-choked wetland Closer investigation revealed a stunning male Pheasant-tailed Jacana perched atop a female.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2012

When he returned to Portugal in disgrace after usurping his position from the rightful governor, Sampayo supposedly took tulip bulbs with him from Sri Lanka. This tale too, however, does not hold up to scrutiny because tulips do not occur in Sri Lanka and the island itself is far from the route Sampayo’s ships should have taken.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

Sri Lanka (375 / 436). Hence I added the second figure from the Fat Birder – often more up to date. Taking as a rule, the higher figure is more accurate. The Oriental realm. Indonesia (1615 / 1603). Malaysia (702 / 781). Thailand (925 / 948). India (1180 / 1171). The Afrotropics. Uganda (987 / 1083). Kenya (1034 / 1153).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Recent studies in Sri Lanka have revealed that, upon sighting a predator, a drongo will imitate the alarm calls of at least 4 other bird species (babblers, laughing thrushes, bulbuls, and others), as well as the call given by the specific predator, i.e. a giant squirrel or eagle.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2017

And in India, when Strycker tied the previous one-year record, his guides Sanu and Harsha took a fair amount of trouble to make sure that a special bird, the Sri Lanka Frogmouth (“nocturnal and not easy to see!”) ( Rothschild’s Swift and Mitred Parakeet , ## 342, 343.). was available as the record-breaker, (#4342).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

The chapter on Sri Lanka, where Gooddie combines a vacation with his girlfriend, largely invisible elsewhere in the book, with his search for Indian Pitta, is to my taste one of the best parts of the book. That comment jumped out at me with an almost electric shock.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2022

Sri Lanka is a ‘must visit country’ for any keen birder. Still, I was thinking and re-thinking: should I write about the Sri Lanka travel guide now, when that country is in an economic tailspin and even its Prime Minister says the economy has “completely collapsed”? Where to look for the birds?

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Sri Lanka Ghana Uganda Protesters 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2020

As Bill Oddie noticed in his foreword to ‘Wild Sri Lanka’ (2nd edition) by Gehan De Silva Wijeyeratne, this island paradise is probably the only country in the world where almost all books on wildlife were authored by a single person. Even the claim that Sri Lanka is the world’s best safari destination outside of Africa comes from him.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2024

The most memorable of those moments for me was when I saw a Daurian Starling in an urban park when I lived in Sri Lanka (see my personal blog ), a rare vagrant on the island which, as I found out the following day, had been seen by others for a few days already. Plus it feels as if you twitched it even if you didn’t.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Growing up in Namibia, South Africa, and Sri Lanka provided the perfect setting for this interest. By Luca Feuerriegel Family holidays to nature reserves and the abundance of nature books including bird guides at home paved the way for Luca to be a committed birder by the time he was in his early teens. before starting his MSc.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Though trips to Borneo, Argentina and Sri Lanka gave plenty of new ticks, I most enjoyed birding in Africa. By the 90s I hadn’t lost my appetite for seeing new birds, but I did enjoy going back to places where I could identify the birds myself, without being told what they were.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Aisles of exhibitors tempted visitors with birding trips to such far-flung locations as Colombia, Kenya, and Sri Lanka, and grown men and women got all kid-in-a-candy-store at the optics booths. When field trips wrapped up, it was time to head back to the Expo Center.

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