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Sinharaja NP, Sri Lanka, 30/1/19

 

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154) Malabar trogon

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Sinharaja NP, Sri Lanka, 30/1/19

 

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155) Black eagle

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Sinharaja NP, Sri Lanka, 30/1/19

 

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156) Yellow-browed bulbul

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Sinharaja NP, Sri Lanka, 30/1/19

 

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157) Sri Lanka drongo (endemic)

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Sinharaja NP, Sri Lanka, 30/1/19

 

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158) Besra

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You did very well to get the babblers even at iso 16000! Lovely shots of the Blue Magpie

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Enjoying the additions. The Sri Lanka blue magpie is particularly beautiful (and the chicks very cute!)

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Dave Williams

Bundala was my favourite park the first time I went, second time access was very limited due to flooding. Never been to Sinharaja as it's too far for a day trip from the coast and doesn't fit in well with other touring options but maybe one day. There are some special birds to be found there.

You must have been frustrated with the Pitta sighting but at least you got a shot of the special little bird that it is.

Your choice of course but it must be painfully time consuming typing in the camera and settings when a click on the image takes you to Flickr where all is revealed, a click on the back arrow and you are straight back to this thread.

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@Dave Williams bundala was great, but as you can see from the photos, it was cloudy for the first half of the trip, which was frustrating

sinharaja was lovely, but a long and winding drive!

 

That pitta was better then our first sighting, which was after sun down, but spotted by me and I made the vehicle stop, so they were all impressed!

 

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Some lovely birds there indeed. Some of the endemics are very tempting. Nothing wrong with that 'final' Pitta.

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1 hour ago, Dave Williams said:

 

Your choice of course but it must be painfully time consuming typing in the camera and settings when a click on the image takes you to Flickr where all is revealed, a click on the back arrow and you are straight back to this thread.

 

@Dave Williams very easy to cut and paste and less hassle for the viewer also. When the BY was first conceived I think the idea was to give people with less photography experience an idea of what was done. Just a habit now, as no one else seems to add the info....

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8 minutes ago, Galana said:

 Nothing wrong with that 'final' Pitta.

 

It looks ok small @Galana 1/20!!

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14 hours ago, Tdgraves said:

It looks ok small @Galana 1/20!!

Size rarely matters. At least we can see the birdie!:o

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michael-ibk

That is a seriously cool looking national bird. I for one like to see the camera specs in this thread, always good to know what others do (even though I'm too lazy to do it myself I admit).

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Dave Williams

You must be breathing a sigh of relief to be back home from Sri Lanka even if the chances of being caught up in it are slim. 

Unbelievable carnage, innocent people slaughtered and what for?  

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Sinharaja NP, Sri Lanka, 30/1/19

 

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159) Blyth's reed warbler (I think that these are both the same species.....)

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Sinharaja NP, Sri Lanka, 30/1/19

 

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160) Greenish warbler

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Sinharaja NP, Sri Lanka, 30/1/19

 

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Not a Lesser whitethroat...

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Sinharaja NP, Sri Lanka, 30/1/19

 

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161) Sri Lanka yellow-fronted barbet (endemic)

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Colombo suburbs, Sri Lanka, 31/1/19

 

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162) Common tailorbird

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You did well with the warblers, and I really like the Barbet.

In no.161, the beak doesn’t (to me) look like that of a Lesser Whitethroat - it looks too curved. Could it be a Flowerpecker? Pale-billed or Nilgiri perhaps (not sure if Nilgiri is found in Sri Lanka)? Nice photo of it!

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2 hours ago, TonyQ said:

In no.161, the beak doesn’t (to me) look like that of a Lesser Whitethroat - it looks too curved. Could it be a Flowerpecker? Pale-billed or Nilgiri perhaps (not sure if Nilgiri is found in Sri Lanka)? Nice photo of it!

I'm with you on this. Not a Whitethroat at all. Looked like a flowerpecker on first seeing it but a trawl through my book failed to nail it. Plain does not occur, which it closely resembles. It could be a Nilgiri that has strayed a bit but not really brown enough. Pale billed is exactly that, pale billed verging on yellow.

Then encouraged by @TonyQ I had another look and found this under pale billed:-

D.e.ceylonese. Sri Lanka. has brown culmen and darker, more olive upperparts.

I reckon that's what it is.

 

 

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@TonyQ and @Galana this is the debate I had with myself last night....

 

I have a pale-billed flowerpecker in post #65 which as you can see has a pinkish bill and is uniformly grey. It is also tiny, which this bird was not. The other one which occurs is legge’s (white-throated) which it is definitely not.

 

The colours of this bird fit exactly with photos of lesser whitethroats on the Internet, albeit with a slightly curved bill.

 

i’m still no clearer!

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Dave Williams

I'm definitely with the Flowerpeckers on this one!

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