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Select a Bird Name
.Large Whistling Teal
16. Red-billed Tropicbird
16. Red-billed Tropicbird
Alexandrine Parakeet
Alpine Swift
Amur Falcon
Arabian Shearwater
Ashy Prinia
Ashy Swallow-Shrike
Ashy-crowned Finch-Lark
Ashy-headed Laughing Thrush
Asian Broad-billed Roller
Asian Dowitcher
Asiatic Golden Plover
Avocet
Ballion’s Crake
Banded Crake
Bar-headed Goose
Bar-tailed Godwit
Barn Owl
Bay-backed Shrike
Bay-banded Cuckoo
Baya Weaver
Besra Sparrowhawk
Black Baza
Black Bittern
Black Bulbul
Black capped Kingfisher
Black Drongo
Black Eagle
Black Kite
Black Robin
Black winged Stilt
Black-backed Yellow Woodpecker
Black-Capped Bulbul
Black-fronted Babbler
Black-headed Cuckoo-Shrike
Black-headed Munia
Black-headed Oriole
Black-naped Monarch
Black-naped Oriole
Black-necked Stork
Black-tailed Godwit
Black-winged Kite
Blackbird
Blossom-headed Parakeet
Blue & White Flycatcher
Blue faced Malkoha
Blue Rock Thrush
Blue tailed Bee-eater
Blue-breasted Banded Rail
Bluethroat
Blyth´s Reed Warbler
Blyth's Pipit
Booted Eagle
Brahminy Kite
Brahminy Mynah
Bridled Tern
Broad-billed Sandpiper
Brown Baza
Brown Fish Owl
Brown Flycatcher
Brown Hawk-Owl
Brown headed Barbet
Brown Noddy
Brown Shrike
Brown Skua
Brown Wood-Owl
Brown-backed Needletail
Brown-capped Babbler
Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker
Brown-headed Gull
Brown-throated Spinetail Swift
Bustard Quail
Caspian plover
Caspian Tern
Cattle Egret
Ceylon Bay Owl
Ceylon Blue Magpie
Ceylon Crested Drongo
Ceylon Frogmouth
Ceylon Grey Hornbill
Ceylon Hill Munia
Ceylon Hill Myna
Ceylon Hill White-eye
Ceylon Junglefowl
Ceylon Lorikeet
Ceylon Rufous Babbler
Ceylon Scimitar Babbler
Ceylon Small Barbet
Ceylon Spurfowl
Ceylon Swallow
Ceylon Trogon
Ceylon Warbler
Ceylon Whistling Thrush
Ceylon White-headed Starling
Ceylon Wood Pigeon
Ceylon Wood-Shrike
Chestnut backed Owlet
Chestnut Bittern
Chestnut headed Bee-eater
Christmas Island Frigate Bird
Citrine Wagtail
ClamorousReed-Warbler
Collared Dove
Collared Pratincole
Comb Duck
Common Coot
Common Coucal
Common Flowerpecker
Common Greenshank
Common Hawk-Cuckoo
Common Iora
Common Kingfisher
Common Moorhen
Common Mynah
Common Redshank
Common Sandpiper
Common Stonechat
Common Swallow
Common Tailorbird
Common Teal
Common Tern
Cotton Teal
Crab Plover
Crested Goshawk
Crested Hawk Eagle
Crested Honey-Buzzard
Crested Serpent Eagle
Crested Tree Swift
Crimson-backed Woodpecker
Crimson-breasted Barbet
Curlew Sandpiper
Daurian Starling
Drongo Cuckoo
Dusky Blue Flycatcher
Edible-nest Swift
Emerald Dove
Eurasian Curlew
European Bee-eater
European Roller
Eye-browed Thrush
Flesh-footed Shearwater
Forest Eagle Owl
Forest Wagtail
Franklin´s Prinia
Garganey
Glossy Ibis
Gold-fronted Chloropsis
Golden-backed Woodpecker
Gray-headed Lapwing
Great Black-headed Gull
Great Cormorant
Great Knot
Great Stone Plover
Great Tit
Greater Crested Tern
Greater Flamingo
Greater Short-toed Lark
Greater spotted eagle
Green Imperial -Pigeon
Green Leaf-Warbler
Green Sandpiper
Green-billed Coucal
Grey Drongo
Grey Heron
Grey Nightjar
Grey Partridge
Grey Plover
Grey Wagtail
Grey-headed Fishing Eagle
Grey-headed Flycatcher
Grey-headed Lapwing
Grey-headed Starling
Gull-billed Tern
Heuglin´s Gull
Hill Swallow
Himalayan Buzzard
Hoopoe
House Crow
House Sparrow
House Swift
Hume´s Whitethroat
Indian Blue Chat
Indian Courser
Indian Cuckoo
Indian Darter
Indian Koel
Indian Nightjar
Indian Peafowl
Indian Pipit
Indian Pitta
Indian Plaintive Cuckoo
Indian Pond Heron
Indian Reef-Heron
Indian Roller
Indian Scops Owl
Indian Shag
Indian Skylark
Indian Three toed Kingfisher
Isabelline Wheatear
Jerdon´s Chloropsis
Jerdon´s Bush-lark
Jungle Bush Quail
Jungle Crow
Jungle Owlet
Jungle Prinia
Kashmir Flycatcher
Kentish Plover
Kestrel
Large Crested Tern
Large Cuckoo-Shrike
Large Egret
Large Pratincole
Large Sand Plover
Large-billed Leaf-Warbler
Layard´s Flycatcher
Layard´s Parakeet
Legge´s Flowerpecker
Legge´s Hawk-Eagle
Lesser Adjutant
Lesser Crested Tern
Lesser Cuckoo
Lesser Flamingo
Lesser Noddy
Lesser Sand Plover
Lesser Whistling Teal
Lesser Yellow-naped Woodpecker
Little Cormorant
Little Egret
Little Grebe
Little Green Bee-eater
Little Green Heron
Little Minivet
Little Pratincole
Little Ringed Plover
Little Scops Owl
Little Stint
Little Tern
Long- tailed Nightjar
Long-legged Buzzard
Long-toed Stint
Loten´s Sunbird
Magpie-Robin
Malabar Pied Hornbill
Malay Bittern
Marsh Sandpiper
Marshall´s Iora
Median Egret
Montagus harrier
Night-Heron
Openbill
Orange Minivet
Orange-breasted Green Pigeon
Orange-headed Ground-Thrush
Oriental Plover
Osprey
Oystercatcher
Painted Partridge
Painted Stork
Painted-Snipe
Pallid Harrier
Palm-Swift
Paradise Flycatcher
Peregrine Falcon
Pheasant-tailed Jacana
Pied Bushchat
Pied Crested Cuckoo
Pied Flycatcher-Shrike
Pied Ground-Thrush
Pied Harrier
Pied Kingfisher
Pintail
Pintail Snipe
Pompadour Green Pigeon
Purple Coot
Purple Heron
Purple Sunbird
Purple-rumped Sunbird
Racket-tailed Drongo
Red Knot
Red-backed Woodpecker
Red-billed Tropic-Bird
Red-collared Dove
Red-collared Dove
Red-faced Malkoha
Red-necked Phalarope
Red-necked Stint
Red-rumped Swallow
Red-vented Bulbul
Red-wattled Lapwing
Red-winged Crested Cuckoo
Richard´s Pipit
Ringed Plover
Rose - ringed Parakeet
Roseate Tern Sterna
Rosy Starling
Ruddy Crake
Ruddy Shelduck
Ruff
Rufous Turtle Dove
Rufous Woodpecker
Rufous-bellied Hawk Eagle
Rufous-rumped Shrike
Sand Martin
Sanderling
Saunders´s Tern Sterna
Scaly Thrush
Scaly-bellied Woodpecker
Serendib Scops Owl
Shaheen Falcon
Shikra
Shoveller
Sirkeer Malkoha
Slender-billed Gull
Small White-Eye
Sooty Tern
Southern Common Babbler
Southern Hill Myna
Spoonbill
Spot-billed Duck
Spot-billed Pelican
Spotted Dove
Spotted Munia
Spotted-winged Thrush
Steppe Buzzard
Stone-Curlew
Stork- billed Kingfisher
Streaked-Fantail Warbler
Striated Weaver
Temminck's Stint
Terek Sandpiper
Thick-billed Flowerpecker
Tickell´s Blue Flycatcher
Tickell´s Flowerpecker
Turnstone
Velvet-fronted Nuthatch
Watercock
Wedge-tailed Shearwater
Western Marsh Harrier
Whimbrel
Whiskered Tern
White bellied Drongo
White Ibis
White Wagtail
White-backed Munia
White-bellied Sea´Eagle
White-breasted Kingfisher
White-breasted Waterhen
White-browed Fantail
White-browed Bulbul
White-browed Prinia
White-necked stork
White-rumped Shama
White-throated Babbler
White-throated Munia
White-vented Drongo
White-winged Black Tern
Wigeon
Wood Sandpiper
Wryneck
Wryneck
Yellow Bittern
Yellow fronted Barbet
Yellow-browed Bulbul
Yellow-eared Bulbul
Yellow-eyed Babbler
Yellow-fronted Pied-Woodpecker
Yellow-headed Wagtail
Yellow-legged Green Pigeon
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher
Yellow-Wagtail
Yellow-wattled Lapwing
Yelow-eyed Babbler
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Ashok Amarasena
Athula Dissanayaka
Ayanthi Samarajewa
Dulan Vidhanapathirana
Hasitha Perera
Hemantha Seneviratne
Iroshan Rupasinghe
Ishira Fernando
Jagath Gunawardena
Kamalawarna Herath
Keith Wijesuriya
Kiran Kumaranayagam
Kithsiri Gunawardena
M.D Gehan Rajeev
Moditha Kodikara Arachchi
Namal Kamalgoda
Niran Caldera
Palitha Antony
Pathmanath Samaraweera
Ravi Darshana
Senaka Abeyratne
Senarath Bulathsinhala
Senehas Karunaratne
Shalinka De Silva
Sudheera Bandara
Tharanga Herath
Thushara Senanayake
Uditha Hettige
W D H Perera
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Podicepididae
Procellariidae
Hydrobatidae
Phaethontidae
Pelicanidae
Sulidae
Phalacrocoracidae
Anhingidae
Fregatidae
Ardeidae
Ciconidae
Threskiornithidae
Phoenicopteridae
Anatidae
Accipitridae
Pandionidae
Falconidae
Phasianidae
Turnicidae
Rallidae
Jacanidae
Rostratulidae
Haematopodidae
Charadridae
Scolopacidae
Recurvirostridae
Phalaropodidae
Dromadidae
Burhinidae
Glareolidae
Strercorariidae
Laridae
Sternidae
Columbidae
Psittacidae
Cuculidae
Tytonidae
Strigidae
Podargidae
Caprimulgidae
Apododae
Hemiprocnidae
Trogonidae
Alcedinidae
Meropidae
Coraciidae
Upupidae
Bucerotidae
Capitonidae
Picidae
Pittidae
Alaudidae
Hirundinidae
Motacillidae
Campephegidae
Monarchidae
Rhipiduridae
Pycnonotidae
Aegithinidae
Choloropseidae
Laniidae
Turdidae
Muscicapidae
Timaliidae
Cisticolidae
Sylvidae
Paridae
Sittidae
Dicaeidae
Nectariniidae
Zosteropidae
Emberizidae
Estrildidae
Passeridae
Ploceidae
Sturnidae
Oriolidae
Dicruridae
Artamidae
Corvidae
Family Name :
Ciconidae
Common Name :
Openbill
- Scientific Name :
Anastomus oscitans
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Image title
:
Openbill
Anastomus oscitans
Other names
: Asian Open Bill
Taxonomy & status
: sp
A oscitans
resident in Sri Lanka
Remarks
: adult
Red data status
: not threatened
Photographer
: Athula Dissanayaka
Location
: Bundala National Park
Equipment
: Canon 350D with Sigma 170-500 lens
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Image title
:
Openbill
Anastomus oscitans
Other names
: Asian Openbill
Taxonomy & status
: sp
oscitans
resident in Sri Lanka
Remarks
: adult
Red data status
: not threatened
Photographer
: Thushara Senanayake
Location
: Dankotuwa
Date
: 9th January 2008
Equipment
: Olympus C770UZ
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Image title
:
Openbill
Anastomus oscitans
Other names
: Asian Open Bill
Taxonomy & status
: sp
A oscitans
resident in Sri Lanka
Remarks
: adult
Red data status
: not threatened
Photographer
: Athula Dissanayaka
Location
: Kumana
Date
: August 2010
Equipment
: Canon 50D with Sigma 500 F4.5 lens
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Image title
:
Openbill
Anastomus oscitans
Other names
: Asian Openbill
Taxonomy & status
: sp
A oscitans
resident in Sri Lanka
Remarks
: adult
Red data status
: not threatened
Photographer
: W D H Perera
Location
: Talangama
Date
: 16th August 2008
Equipment
: Canon 400D with Canon 400 f5.6 lens
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Image title
:
Openbill
Anastomus oscitans
Other names
: Asian Openbill
Taxonomy & status
: sp
A oscitans
resident in Sri Lanka
Remarks
: adult
Red data status
: not threatened
Photographer
: Senaka Abeyratne
Location
: Ruhuna National Park
Date
: 4th February 2011
Equipment
: Canon 7D with Canon 100-400 zoom