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27/09/2023

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🧗🌈️🙏🌄Today trekking with ithalyan guests 🌄🙏🌈️🧗 two doctors 👩‍⚕‍😁and good whether condition 👍 no raining ☔

25/07/2023

Thanks for the birthday wishes. Celebrated my birthday on Knuckles Mountain Range. Hope to do it again on my 58th.❤❤🌎😇

01/05/2017

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THE GREAT WHITE HERON - කොකා
Captured by pradeep at Alagalla Mountain Range on 26.04.1017

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30/04/2017

It's the beginning of the time of butterflies in Sri Lanka.

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28/04/2017

21/04/2017

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THE WHITE THROATED KINGFISHER -
(පිලිහුඩුවා)
Captured by pradeep at Alagalla Mountain Range on 02.04.2017.

The white-throated kingfisher (Halcyon smyrnensis) also known as the white-breasted kingfisher or Smyrna kingfisher, is a tree kingfisher,[2] widely distributed in Asia from Turkey east through the Indian subcontinent to the Philippines. This kingfisher is a resident over much of its range, although some populations may make short distance movements. It can often be found well away from water where it feeds on a wide range of prey that includes small reptiles, amphibians, crabs, small rodents and even birds. During the breeding season they call loudly in the mornings from prominent perches including the tops of buildings in urban areas or on wires.It is the State bird of West Bengal.[3]

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20/04/2017

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THE GREY HERON
Captured by pradeep at Wilpaththu National Park on 19.04.2017.

The grey heron (Ardea cinerea) is a long-legged predatory wading bird of the heron family, Ardeidae, native throughout temperate Europe and Asia and also parts of Africa. It is resident in much of its range, but some populations from the more northern parts migrate southwards in autumn. A bird of wetland areas, it can be seen around lakes, rivers, ponds, marshes and on the sea coast. It feeds mostly on aquatic creatures which it catches after standing stationary beside or in the water or stalking its prey through the shallows.

Standing up to a metre tall, adults weigh from 1 to 2 kg (2.2 to 4.4 lb). They have a white head and neck with a broad black stripe that extends from the eye to the black crest. The body and wings are grey above and the underparts are greyish-white, with some black on the flanks. The long, sharply pointed beak is pinkish-yellow and the legs are brown.

The birds breed colonially in spring in "heronries", usually building their nests high in trees. A clutch of usually three to five bluish-green eggs is laid. Both birds incubate the eggs for a period of about 25 days, and then both feed the chicks, which fledge when seven or eight weeks old. Many juveniles do not survive their first winter, but if they do, they can expect to live for about five years.

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19/04/2017

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19/04/2017

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THE BLACK-NAPED MONARCH
Captured by Pradeep at Wilpattu National Park on 19.04.2017.

The black-naped monarch or black-naped blue flycatcher (Hypothymis azurea) is a slim and agile passerine bird belonging to the family of monarch flycatchers found in southern and south-eastern Asia. They are sexually dimorphic with males having a distinctive black patch on the back of the head and a narrow black half collar ("necklace") while the female is duller and lacks the black markings. They have a call that is similar to that of the Asian paradise flycatcher and in tropical forest habitats pairs may join mixed-species foraging flocks. Populations differ slightly in plumage colour and sizes.
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14/04/2017

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THE GREAT WHITE HERON - කොකා
Captured by pradeep at Alagalla Mountain Range on 02.04.1017

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13/04/2017

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12/04/2017

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කන කොකා [Kana Koka]/Indian Pond Heron (Ardeola grayii)
(Captured by paradeep jayasinghe on 02.04.2017 at Alagalla Mountain Range.)

Very common bird usually found in paddy fields throughout the island. It also lives close to tanks, lagoons and marshlands. Eventhough it is solitary in habit during day time feedings , flocks can be seen flying to its night time communal roosting trees at dusk. Breeding season is from December to May and nests can be observed in regular heronries sometime with other species of herons, cormorants.

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12/04/2017

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THE POMPADOUR GREEN PIGEON - කදුකර කොල පරවියා
(Photography by pradeep on 01.04.2017 at Alagalla Mountain Range)

The pompadour green pigeon (Treron sp.) is a pigeon complex in the genus Treron. It is widespread in forests of southern and southeast Asia. Many authorities have split the pompadour green pigeon into multiple species, which are listed below:

It is a widespread group in forests of tropical southern Asia from India, Sri Lanka east to the Philippines and the Moluccas. In India, they are found as disjunct populations in the Western Ghats, some parts of the Eastern Ghats, Northeastern India and in the Andaman Islands.

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11/04/2017

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THE RED-RUMPED SWALLOW - වැහිලිහිණියා
(Photography by pradeep on 08.04.2017 at Knuckles Mountain Range)

සත්වයන්ගේ අපුර්වතම නිර්මාණාත්මක හැකියාවන් මැනිය හැකි කදිම අවස්ථාවක් වන්නේ කුරුලු ප්‍රජාව තම වාසස්ථාන තනා ගන්නා ආකාරයයි. කුරුළු ලෝකයේ නිර්මාණාත්මක බවින්, කල්පැවැත්මෙන් හා වඩාත් සුරක්ෂිත වාසස්ථාන තනා ගන්නා අය අතර වැහිලිහිණියා ඉදිරියෙන් සිටි.

වැහිලිහිණී විශේෂ කිහිපයක් ඇති අතර මෑතක දී ශ්‍රි ලංකාවට ආවේනික කුරුල්ලන්ගේ නාම ලේඛනයට ඇතුළත් වු නිතඹ රතු වැහිලිහිණියා හෙවත් රෙඩ් රම්ෆට් ෆැලෝ නැමති කුරුල්ලාගේ වාසස්ථානය ද ඉතා මනරම් ය.

නිතඹ රතු වැහිලිහිණියා තම නිවහන තනා ගන්නේ තනිකර මැටිවලනි. මැටි කුඩා කොටස්වලට ගෙන තම මුඛයේ දමා කෙළ සමඟ මිශ්‍ර කර බෝල වශයෙන් සකසා ගෙන නිවෙසේ බිත්ති බැඳ ගන්නා අතර එහි මතු පිට ස්වරූපය පුනීලයක් දෙකට පළා ගැනීමෙන් පසු ලැබෙන එක් කොටසක හැඩය මෙනි. ඇතුලුවීම සඳහා කුඩා කවුළුවක් හැර කූඩුවේ සියලු පැති මුළුමනින් ම මැටිවලින් ආවරණය කර ඇත.

ශබ්දවලින් තොර නිසොල්මන් තැන්වල කුඩු තනා ගන්නා මෙම වැහිලිහිණි විශේෂය අප්‍රේල් ජුනි මාසවල සිය වර්ගයා බෝ කර ගැනීම සඳහා බිත්තර දමයි. සෙන්ටිමීටර් 18ක් පමණ දිගින් යුත් කුඩා ශරීරයකින් හෙබි නිතඹ රත්තා කුඩා රෑන් වශයෙන් ජීවත් වෙයි.

The red-rumped swallow (Cecropis daurica) is a small passerine bird in the swallow family. It breeds in open hilly country of temperate southern Europe and Asia from Portugal and Spain to Japan, India, Sri Lanka and tropical Africa. The Indian and African birds are resident, but European and other Asian birds are migratory. They winter in Africa or India and are vagrants to Christmas Island and northern Australia.

From Pangolakha Wildlife Sanctuary, East Sikkim, India.
Red-rumped swallows are somewhat similar in habits and appearance to the other aerial insectivores, such as the related swallows and the unrelated swifts (order Apodiformes). They have blue upperparts and dusky underparts.

They resemble barn swallows, but are darker below and have pale or reddish rumps, face and neck collar. They lack a breast band, but have black undertails. They are fast fliers and they swoop on insects while airborne. They have broad but pointed wings.

Red-rumped swallows build quarter-sphere nests with a tunnel entrance lined with mud collected in their beaks, and lay 3 to 6 eggs. They normally nest under cliff overhangs in their mountain homes, but will readily adapt to buildings such as mosques and bridges.

They do not normally form large breeding colonies, but are gregarious outside the breeding season. Many hundreds can be seen at a time on the plains of India.

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31/03/2017

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- THE YELLOW-WATTED LAPWING
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The yellow-wattled lapwing (Vanellus malabaricus) is a lapwing that is endemic to the Indian Subcontinent. It is found mainly on the dry plains of peninsular India and has a sharp call and is capable of fast flight. Although they do not migrate, they are known to make seasonal movements in response to rains. They are dull grey brown with a black cap, yellow legs and a triangular wattle at the base of the beak. Like other lapwings and plovers, they are ground birds and their nest is a mere collection of tiny pebbles within which their well camouflaged eggs are laid. The chicks are nidifugous, leaving the nest shortly after hatching and following their parents to forage for food.

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30/03/2017

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- THE INDIAN PARADISE FLYCATCHER -
(සිවුරු හොරා)

The Indian paradise flycatcher (Terpsiphone paradisi) is a medium-sized passerine bird native to Asia that is widely distributed. As the global population is considered stable, it has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 2004. It is native to the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia and Myanmar.[1]

Males have elongated central tail feathers, and a black and rufous plumage in some populations, while others have white plumage. Females are short-tailed with rufous wings and a black head.[2] Indian paradise flycatchers feed on insects, which they capture in the air often below a densely canopied tree.

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27/03/2017

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-THE WHITE-RUMPED SHAMA

The white-rumped shama (Copsychus malabaricus) is a small passerine bird of the family Muscicapidae. Native to densely vegetated habitats in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, its popularity as a cage-bird and songster has led to it being introduced elsewhere.

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26/03/2017

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- THE GREY-CAPPED EMERALD DOVE (නීලකොබෙයියා) -

The common emerald dove, Asian emerald dove, or grey-capped emerald dove (Chalcophaps indica) is a pigeon which is a widespread resident breeding bird in the tropical and sub-tropical parts of the Indian Subcontinent and east through Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, the Sakishima Islands of Japan and Indonesia. The dove is also known by the names of green dove and green-winged pigeon. The common emerald dove is the state bird of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The Pacific emerald dove and Stephan's emerald dove were both considered conspecific.

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