PAINTED STORK

March 2017

1091                 PAINTED STORK                 Mycteria leucocephala

SRI LANKA             104

Found in marshes, tanks, lagoons, chiefly freshwater. 93-100 cm. Fairly common breeding resident in dry lowlands; an introduced population in and around Colombo.

FERAL PIGEON

March 2017

114                    FERAL PIGEON                Columba livia

SRI LANKA                 103

Also known as Domestic or Homing pigeon or Rock Dove. 33-36 cm. Widespread across Europe, n Africa and w Asia, and Australia with European settlement. Widespread in villages, towns, cities and farm homesteads. Found in urban areas, grain installations, roadsides, woodlands, paddocks.

ORIENTAL HONEY-BUZZARD

Subspecies ruficollis, March 2017

(*858)                ORIENTAL HONEY-BUZZARD              Pernis ptilorhynchus

SRI LANKA              102

Also known as Crested Honey-buzzard. Mostly in well wooded areas. 57-60 cm. Fairly rare breeding resident; population much increased by winter migrants.

BLACK EAGLE

Subspecies perniger, March 2017

 1090                 BLACK EAGLE             Ictinaetus malayensis

SRI LANKA               101

Found in forests and nearby open country. 69-81 cm. Uncommon breeding resident in wet lowlands and up to hills; also isolated forested hills in adjacent dry lowlands, visitor elsewhere.

CRESTED HAWK EAGLE

Subspecies ceylanensis, March 2017

1089                 CRESTED HAWK EAGLE                 Nisaetus cirrhatus

SRI LANKA               100

Found in well-wooded areas. 61-72 cm. Locally fairly common breeding resident throughout Sri Lanka.

BOOTED EAGLE

March 2017

1088               BOOTED EAGLE                  Hieraaetus pennatus 

SRI LANKA              99

Found near forest to lightly wooded and open areas. 45-53 cm. Rather rare winter migrant throughout Sri Lanka.

PHEASANT-TAILED JACANA

March 2017

1087                 PHEASANT-TAILED JACANA               Hydrophasianus chirurgus     

SRI LANKA               98

Found on marshes, lakes and tanks with floating vegetation. 31 cm. Locally common breeding resident in the lowlands.

GREATER SAND PLOVER

Subspecies leschenaultii, March 2017

(*   684)              GREATER SAND PLOVER               Charadrius leschenaultii

SRI LANKA             684

Found along seashores, lagoons, mudflats. 22-25 cm. Fairly rare winter migrant to lowland coastal areas; more often in dry zone.

LESSER SAND PLOVER

Subspecies atrifrons, March 2017

(*   644)                  LESSER SAND PLOVER              Charadrius mongolus    

SRI LANKA                   96

Found along the shoreline of a variety of wetlands and wet grasslands. 19-21 cm. Common winter migrant to the lowlands, more common in a dry zone.

ASIAN OPENBILL

March 2017

(*   318)                ASIAN OPENBILL                  Anastomus oscitans 

SRI LANKA             95

Found in marshes, tanks, lakes, rivers and lagoons. 68 cm. Fairly common breeding resident in lowlands, small numbers found along rivers in interior wet zone, and on lakes and rivers up to lower hills.