Showing posts with label Sri Lanka Woodshrike. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sri Lanka Woodshrike. Show all posts

Sunday, April 16, 2017

SRI LANKAN WOODSHRIKE

Photographed March 2017
1066                        SRI LANKAN WOODSHRIKE                Tephrodornis (pondicerianus) affinis       

SRI LANKA                  49

Found in open forest, well-wooded areas and scrub with scattered trees. 18 cm. Fairly common breeding resident in dry lowlands and scattered localities in wet lowlands and up to mid hills.

NOTE: treated as conspecific with Common Woodshrike.