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......]

Last Updated | June 3, 2009

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 .........

Last Updated | June 2, 2009

Observations on the annual mass migration of Bridled Terns off the coast of Sri Lanka over a period of thirteen years is documented and data is presented which suggests that this phenomenon could be a post-breeding dispersal. [More......]

Last Updated | June 2, 2009

A distinguishing feature between the nominate Stilt and the Australian species is differences in lengths of the hindneck feathers. This study examines the neck feathering of both the nominate and Australian species. [More......]

Last Updated | June 2, 2009

This gives an account of the first Rufous-necked Stint recorded in Sri Lanka. The bird, which was in breeding plumage, was sighted in the Bundala salt-pans. [More......]

Last Updated | June 2, 2009

The paper present findings on the waterbird populations in Malala Lewaya (lagoon) in the Bundala National Park which is a Ramsar site.

Last Updated | June 2, 2009

Tarsus lengths of Brown Skuas are reliable guides to their home ranges. Tarsi of specimens from Sri Lanka and India suggested that their home ranges were from the sub-Antarctic islands and New Zealand. [More......]

Last Updated | June 2, 2009

Shearwaters were observed migrating southwards off the western coast of Sri Lanka. On the basis of their morphology the birds were identified as Flesh-footed Shearwaters. [More......]

Last Updated | June 2, 2009

Specimens of Large Skuas from Sri Lanka are deposited in the Colombo Museum. One had been identified as a South Polar Skua and others as Antarctic Skuas. Reexamination of the specimens showed that all are Brown Skuas. [More......]

Last Updated | June 2, 2009

An annual mass migration of Bridled Terns (a species of seabird) has been observed off the western coast of Sri Lanka. This paper describes the migration as observed from land during the years 1981-1984. [More......]

Last Updated | June 2, 2009