A Pea-cock - Pavo cristatus courting, Uda-walawe National Park, Sri Lanka.

We waited nearly fifteen minutes watching this display. We moved on before it ended. I wonder whether the male attained its purpose. 

Common Tailor-bird - Orthotomus sutorius, Home garden, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Birds in a Paddy field, Tissa, Sri Lanka.

'Black-winged Stilt' - Himantopus himantopus.

Stilt and 'Black-headed Ibis'.

Black-headed Ibises - Thrskiornis melanocephalus, Deberawewa, Sri Lanka.

Greater Coucal - Centropus sinensis, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Useful because it eats up the snails and molluscs in the garden. It is a danger to the chicks of other birds. It raids the nests just before the chicks take flight and has a good meal of the chicks.

'White-throated Kingfisher' - Halcyon smyrnensis, Avissawella, Sri Lanka.

Cattle Egret - Bubulcus ibis, Katharagama, Sri Lanka.

Indian Robin - Saxicoloides fulicata, Sithulpawwa, Sri Lanka.