Showing posts with label Coracias benghalensis. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Coracias benghalensis. Show all posts

Sunday, March 20, 2011

My Local Birding Retreat.................

Allow me to present my nature escape, quite a little heaven consisting of rice fields, a coconut plantation with many other varieties of trees scattered over,  a rocky outcrop with surrounding thick vegetation, an exhausted granite mine now filled with water, just with in five minute's walk from home. Here's a   list of some of the creatures that I have observed there sofar.

Asian Openbill Stork /Anastomus oscitans
 
Little Cormorant /Microcarbo niger/දියකාවා

Rose-ringed Parakeet/Psittacula krameri
Black-hooded Oriole/ Oriolus xanthornus
Indian Roller /Coracias benghalensis  
Indian Pond Heron ,Ardeola grayii

Scaly-breasted Munia, Lonchura punctulata
White-rumped Munia/Lonchura striata
Spotted Dove/ Spilopelia chinensis
Three species of birds of prey that I couldn't ID
Copper-smith Barbet
Sri Lanka Small Barbet
Brown Headed Barbet
Scarlet Minivet/ Pericrocotus flammeus 
Crimson-backed Flameback Woodpecker
Ashy Prinia/Prinia socialis 
White -breasted Waterhen
 Mongoose species I couldn't ID 





White-rumped Munia/Lonchura striata





Indian Roller /Coracias benghalensis 

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Ashy Prinia/Prinia socialis
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