| The “Mixed Feeding Flocks” of Sinharaja National Heritage Wilderness Area is the worlds’ most extensively research flock with over 400 data sets since 1981.The study has enabled the publication of numerous research papers and has thus brought fame to Sinharaja in terms of avifaunal studies............ |
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Bird Flocks of Sinharaja
Climate Change and Biodiversity Decline
| The scientific evidence is overwhelming: climate change is happening, it is largely caused by human activities, it presents very serious global risks for people and biodiversity around the world and it demands urgent response at all levels. The direct and indirect impacts of climate change are of central concern to .......... |
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Preserving Heritage for Tomorrow
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Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka(fogsl) with the financial assistance from Sri Lanka Telecom (SLT)conducting residential environmental education programme at Sinharaja World heritage site for the secondary level school children of the country. Read the story of last workshop.......
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STUDIES ON MIXED SPECIES BIRD FLOCKS
| studying mixed-species bird flocks in the Sinharaja Forest Reserve in 1981. While logging had been stopped at this time, the future of the reserve was still in doubt, and the data gathered by Prof. Kotagama and the March for Conservation was crucial to Sinharaja being protected as a World Heritage Reserve...... |
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NATIONAL BIRD RINGING PROGRAMME
| To seek this information, the National Bird Ringing Programme was launched in April 2005 by the Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka (FOGSL) at the Bundala National Park in collaboration with the Department of Wild Life Conservation (DWC). The programme has continued for the third successful year. |
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BirdLife and taxonomy
| BirdLife International maintains its own taxonomic checklist of the world’s bird species because (1) there are so many different global, regional, national, site and family taxonomic checklists, and (2) the current major phase of taxonomic revision requires BirdLife to track and evaluate new arrangements as they are proposed............... |
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Wader ringing studies at Bundala National Park, Sri Lanka: three years of the National Bird Ringing Programme
Keywords: Ringing, banding, Bundala National Park, Sri Lanka, waders, shorebirds
Sri Lanka has long been recognised as a key site for migratory waders in the Indian Ocean Region, especially for those species that breed in the northern latitudes of the eastern Palearctic. However, [More......]
Australian Curlew Sandpiper on passage through Sri Lanka
Keywords: Shorebird, conservation, ringing, banding, Curlew Sandpiper, migration Sri Lanka.
On 20 August 2005, a Curlew Sandpiper Calidris ferruginea carrying a yellow flag was observed at the saltpans in Bundala National Park, Sri Lanka (6°11.195'N, 81°14.589'E). The bird was 300 m from the observers, and was located with a 30 × 60 telescope [More......]
Pioneering shorebird research in Sri Lanka: launch of the National Bird Ringing Programme
Keywords: Shorebird, conservation, ringing, banding, ageing criteria, training, Sri Lanka.
We report on the first steps of a new project to establish a network of sites for shorebird research and conservation in Sri Lanka. These include the first training course conducted in April 2005 in the Bundala National Park in which 16 members of staff of the Department of Wildlife and Conservation learnt shorebird study skills including mist-netting, recording biometrics and ageing, under the National Bird Ringing Programme. We describe the methods we developed for ageing Curlew Sandpipers, Little Stints and Redshanks. [More......]
A Tally List For Birds Of Sri Lanka
| Latest version of the Sri lankan bird list, “Birds of Sri Lanka: A tally list” can be downloaded now. This list is based on the recent taxonomic revision of Sri Lankan avifauna ......... |
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