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Limosa Holidays Tour Report 2015 ,Led by Our Director/ Bird Tour Leader Tharanga Herath as local Tour Leader

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Endemic Birds of Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka Junglefowl (Gallus lsfayetti)

Endemic Birds  of Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka Junglefowl (Gallus lsfayetti)

This beautiful endemic is fairly common from lowlands to high hills of Sri Lanka.
OrnithVacations Birding Tours has never missed a sighting of this Sri Lankan National Bird in our Birding Tours.
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Limosa Tour Report  2016 Led by Tharanga Herathhttps://www.limosaholidays.co.uk/reportpdfs/Sri%20Lanka%20Bird%20Report%20Feb%202016.pdf

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Endemic Birds of Sri Lanka. Dull-blue Flycatcher

Dull-blue Flycatcher (Eumyias sordidus)

A beautiful and poorly named uncommon endemic usually found in mid hills and above and occasionally in lower elevations. Mostly found in pairs and fairly territorial.Prefers well wooded or forest areas. Also called as Dusky Blue Flycatcher
Sings beautifully soft and sweet.

Coloration/ ID - Ashy blue with grayish white belly.Black lores and  cobolt blue shiny forehead.Sexes alike unless female is sightly duller than the male.Juvenile is brown with buff spots.

Dull Blue Flycatcher is a regular sight on OrnithVacations Birding Tours with our Bird expert Tour Leaders.
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Watching Ceylon Whisting Thrush or Arrenga on Our Birding Tours....

Ceylon Whistling Thrush or Arrenga is definitely a very  very special encounter in our Bird watching Tours, which most other bird watching tours would not offer, as it needs a lot of experience  in Birding and study on this extremely elusive endemic species, that ordinary Tour guides would not come-across.
 We take a very early start in a very chilly dawn from Nuwara eliya , to higher hills nearly 7000ft from sea level. we are headed to highland cloud forests of  Misty peaks.

View Point Worlds end, Photo Credit - Trip Advisor.co.uk

 When it comes to Bird watching central  Highlands of Sri Lanka has a lot to give. It is a misty paradise of Birds and named as a World Heritage Site by IUCN, considering the great capacity of diversity it offers the world.  We would reach the our destination with the first rays of the sun while our tour participants enjoy the view of sun rays in one side and the other  side still dark with the moon light and the clouds below them like you are flying above the clouds.

Sun is up on one side while moon is still there.

Clouds below you

 We then look for this early Bird which normally active in Dawn and Dusk and it is a regular sighting in our Tours with many more bird species including some other endemics ,thanks to our Bird Experts, who are not only Tour Leaders, but also countries foremost Bird watchers who have been studying bird life of Sri Lanka for many many years and love Birds as much as you do.

a record of a nest of This species by our Director /Bird Tour Leaders Tharanga Herath. This was the first record of this species building a nest in a man made settlement.

Sambas in plains

Why not coming to Sri Lanka to Watch Kashmir Flycatcher?

Sri Lanka  is the Best place to encounter this beautiful & illusive Bird species, and our expert Bird Tour Leaders would take you to watch them.

Watch Indian Pitta @ Sri Lanka with OrnithVacations Guided Birding Tours..

Indian Pitta

Subcontinent Endemic,
Hard to find in Motherland India, But a regular sight in OrnithVacations Birding Tours in Sri Lanka, from October to April.

Life Cycle of Crimson Rose Butterfly (Pachliopta hector )

This is a Study on Crimson Rose Butterfly Species Life Cycle (Pachliopta hector) by our Tour Leader Bird and Butterfly Expert.
The study was carried out in Natural Environment.

Copulation

Egg Deposition

Egg

Larvae

Pupa

Fresh imago

Is Sri Lanka FrogMouth in your Wish List?

Sri Lanka FrogMouth (Subcontinent Endemic)

Even though it is usually preferring dense forests ,well camouflaged and well hidden in Foliage looking just like a part of the tree trunk, It is an Usual sight in our Birding Tours, thanks to our Bird Experts who are excellent in spotting Birds and find illusive bird species.

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Butterfly watching Tours to Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka is home to more than 250 Butterfly species.
OrnithVacations provides Butterfly watching tours with expert tour leaders, who have been studying Butterfly life of Sri Lanka for many Years,
Join our Butterfly watching tours to enjoy these real beauties of nature.
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A Tour Report, led by OrnithVacations Tour Leader/Director Tharanga Herath.
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Limosa Holidays,UK 2016 Sri Lanka Tour Report,

OrnithVacations Director/Tour Leader Tharanga Herath as Local Tour Leader.

Limosa Holidays,UK 2015 Tour Report, as our Director/Tour Leader Tharanga Herath as Local

Limosa Holidays,UK 2015 Sri Lanka Tour Report,

OrnithVacations Director/Tour Leader Tharanga Herath as Local Tour Leader.

Endemic Birds Of Sri Lanka

4.Chestnut-backed Owlet (Glaucidium radiatum)

This endemic is an uncommon species seen from lowlands to high hills of the wet zone. it is an barred small owlet,in  size of a collard scopes owl and similar to Jungle Owlet except the bright Chestnut Colour on its back,scapulars and wing coverts.  
This shy owlet prefers tops of the tall trees, and very diurnal in its behavior and sometimes seen hunting and calling in day light too. It mainly feeds on Insects,Mice, small lizards, and birds. Breeding season occurs from March to May and lays about 02 glossy white eggs in a hole of a tree trunk or a limb.

Coloration /ID

About 20 am in size. Bright Chestnut back,scapulars and wing coverts. White underparts with heavily streaked with blackish streaks. Head dark brown and barred with whitish. Feet pale yellow and irides Bright Yellow.

 

Endemic Birds of Sri Lanka

3. Serendib Scops Owl- Otus thilohoffmanni

Serendib Scops owl is a recent addition to Sri Lanka's endemic list and a very rare and elusive species found in wet low lands up to mid hills.
This small owl is well camouflaged in his uniform rufous colour upper parts with tiny black spots and orange/yellow eyes.
This species is nocturnal and territorial, and prefers dense forests. Seen in Pairs or single .when exited it forms a false ear tufts but not seen while resting.
Call is soft and short but far caring.
This species is listed as globally threatened

Colouration/ID

Rufous upper parts with tiny black spots, under parts pale rufous with black spots, Whitish Bill, and Pinkish white legs. Face is also Rufous but misses the black markings. Ear tufts are seen only when exited or in alert. Eyes Orange or Yellow
Juveniles and females got Yellow Iris while males got orange.

Our Tour Leaders - Chaminda Dilruk

Chaminda is a well-known name in bird tour circles and has been in bird tours field for about 18 years. He has a great reputation specially in locating and spotting elusive bird species, including one of the most looked for Serendib Scops Owl. With a long held full time wilderness experience and expertise as a guide, OrnithVacations is proud to receive his service. Chaminda would be an excellent companion for anyone who is willing to traverse anywhere in Sri Lanka looking for all these elusive birds.
We highly recommend him as your tour leader, as he would make your visit a great success. 

Endemic Birds of Sri Lanka 

2.Sri Lanka Hanging Parrot ( Ceylon Lorikeet) - 

loriculus beryllinus

This very little parrot (14cm) is a fairly common species in wet lowlands to mid hills, and restricted to the foot hills, of Sri Lanka.You can hear their high frequency call, made by flying birds, while walking in forested areas . This species Mostly prefers to be  paired or seen single and seen resting up side down on branches like bats in wooded areas.
Lorikeets mostly feeds on Fruits and seeds there are records of them found dead inside local toddy pots as they are fond of drinking toddy.
They make nests in holes of the tree trunks,mainly in March to June and also in August and September.
 
Coloration/ID
Adult male has a crimson crown, Golden tinged nape,blue throat,orange cast to mantle,Crimson rump and upper tail-coverts and a orange bill. The  females are little duller in colors and less blue on throat. Juveniles has more green on the head and no blue on throat at all.Tail is short and rather square in shape. 


Hanging Parrot is surly a joyful sight to a bird watcher.

 

This beautiful and very photogenic species is also one of the highlights in our birding tours. 

Our Tour Leaders-

Tharanga Herath - Bird/Butterfly Expert

Leading Birding tours

Tharanga is a well known Birder,Bird/ Butterfly Instructor and a wildlife Artist. He has been studying Birds and wildlife, his passion in life, from his very Young age and handling large Birding/Butterfly groups for last 12 years. He serves as local tour Leader for many good Birding tour Groups like Limosa UK for many years and highly recommended by the Travelers for his very Knowledgeable, highly professional and very friendly services. Please refer our site www.ornithvacations.com for the Comments he had received.
Tharanga is Volunteering in many leading Birding & wildlife organizations in Sri Lanka and conducting lectures for Government organizations and other institutions on wildlife, while featuring in National and International wildlife Art Exhibitions. His art work can be seen on www.tharangaherath.com. He is a director of Ornithvactions and serving the company by giving his valuable knowledge, gathered through many years of experience in tourism field as an expert tour leader and a birder.
Birding with Tharanga is a life time experience as he knows his Birds very well.

Tharanga with bird watchers, at a Birding Tour

Tour Leading for Limosa Holidays, UK 

 

Tharanga as a resource person in a national Radio Channel

                               

Tharanga conducting School Lectures for Student

More School Lectures

with young environmental enthusiasts

Exhibiting his paintings at Art & Vielfalt 2018, at Magdeburg Natural science Museum, Germany

activities With school kids while a lecture

with another  group of butterfly watchers

at a safari, while  a tour

another tour photo

delegating at  Global Bird watchers conference Gujarat, India accepting invitation from India

leading a Butterfly and Birding Tour

about to start a safari  at a tour

Limosa Holidays Group

while conducting Community awareness Programme on  wildlife

Another tour photo

Volunteering as an Instructor to a  young Bird study group in the field

His Art Work at Singapore

another Birding tour with expert Birders

featuring on a local news paper