House Sparrows- Passer domesticus indicus - Hatton, Sri Lanka.

House Sparrow - Passer domesticus indicus, Hatton, Sri Lanka.

House sparrows building nests on an earthern embankment near the Pillayaar Temple, Hatton, Sri Lanka

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Northern Pin-tails - Anas acuta - Manalkaadu, Point-Pedro, Sri Lanka.

Little and Intermediate Egrets, Ibis, Manalkaadu, Point-Pedro, Sri Lanka.

Ibises, Spoonbills and Egrets, Manalkaadu, Point-Pedro, Sri Lanka.

Black-tailed Godwits - Limosa limosa, Manalkaadu, Point-Pedro, Sri Lanka.

Painted Storks, Black-headed Ibises, and Eurasian Spoonbills, Manalkaadu, Point-Pedro, Sri Lanka.

Black-winged Stilts - Himantopus himantopus, Manalkaadu, Point-Pedro, Sri Lanka.

Painted Storks, Eurasian Spoon-bills and a Black-headed Ibis, Manalkaadu, Point-Pedro, Sri Lanka.

Black-headed Ibises - Threskiornis melanocephalus - , Manalkaadu, Point-Pedro, Sri Lanka.

Painted-storks - Mycteria lecocephala - Manalkaadu, Point-Pedro, Sri Lanka.

Black-headed Ibises and Painted Storks, Manalkaadu, Point-Pedro, Sri Lanka.

Black-headed Ibises and Egrets, Vallipuram, Point-Pedro, Sri Lanka.

Open-bill feeding, Vallipuram, Point-Pedro, Sri Lanka.

Black-headed Ibis in flight and Open-bill foraging, Vallipuram, Point-Pedro, Sri Lanka.

Black-winged Stilts - Himantopus himantopus, Manalkaadu, Point-Pedro, Sri Lanka

Bird in flight, Vallai, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Video:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKVx-c9MiqE

Godwits and Northern Pin-tails, Vallai, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Stray dog eating a carcass remnant, Vallai, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Video:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKVx-c9MiqE

House Crows - Corvus splendens on a collection of funeral pyre supports, Vallai, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Northern Pin-tail, or Garganey, Near Vallai bridge, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Great Egret - Casmerodius albus, near Vallai bridge, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

Black-tailed Godwit - Limosa limosa, near Vallai Bridge, Sri Lanka

Black-winged Stilt - Himantopus himantopus, Manalkaadu, Point -Pedro, Jaffna, Sri Lanka.

The road to the seashore at Manalkaadu is full of bird life. I took this picture there on Dec 17 2012.

Cattle Egrets - Bubulcus ibis, Wariyapola, Sri Lanka.

Cattle Egrets are found aplenty in the paddy fields of this area. They gather round to pick the earthworms when the fields are being ploughes.

Spot-billed Pelican - Pelecanus philippensis, near Wariyapola, Sri Lanka.

The many pools on either side of the highway from Kurunegala to Wariyapola, provides sanctury to Pelicans who fish the waters to their heart's content.

Indian Robin - Saxicoloides fulicata, Murikandy on the A9, Sri Lanka.

The bird life on either side of the A9 highway, from Kandy to Jaffna is really amazing. I took this photo at a lunch-break at the Testa Restaurent at Murikandy.

Oriental Magpie Robin - Coppsychus saularis, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Great Cormorant - Phalacrocorax carbo, Gampaha, Sri Lanka.

Domestic buffalo and Egrets, Nawalapitiya, Sri Lanka.

A wayside scene on the road to Ginigathena from Nawalapitiya, Sri Lanka.

Egrets on a paddy field, Gampaha, Sri Lanka.

'White-bellied Drongo' - Dicrurus caerulescens, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Video:-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19F6m2ktsAI&list=UU1dqepitfAJwrQWLD-gZ3NA&index=4&feature=plcp

A very regular visitor to our home-garden. They imitate various sounds eg the mewing sound of a cat etc.

'White-breasted Water-hen' - Amaurornis phoenicurus, Waters Edge, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

Seen from the foot-paths of Waters Edge, Colombo.