TICKELL'S BLUE FLYCATCHER

Subspecies jerdoni, photographed March 2017

1075               TICKELL'S BLUE FLYCATCHER                Cyornis tickelliae

SRI LANKA            75

Found in forest and wooded areas. 14 cm. Rather uncommon breeding resident locally in lowlands up to mid hills.

LITTLE RINGED PLOVER

Photographed March 2017

(*  900)                 LITTLE RINGED PLOVER                     Charadrius dubius

SRI LANKA               55

Found on the shores of lagoons, rivers and tanks, mudflats, paddy fields and salt-pans. 14-17 cm. Rather uncommon breeding resident in dry lowlands (race: jerdoni); winter migrants (race: curonicus) also occur throughout the lowlands.