Sri Lanka Bird & Nature Check List July 2007 Birds Spot billed Pelican Little Cormorant Great Cormorant Indian Cormorant Oriental Darter Purple Heron Grey Heron Intermediate Egret Great egret Little Egret Cattle Egret Indian Pond Heron Black-crowned Night Heron Painted Stork Asian Openbill Woolly-necked Stork Black-necked Stork Glossy Ibis Black-headed Ibis Eurasian Spoonbill Little Grebe Lesser Whistling-duck Cotton Pygmy-goose Oriental Honey-buzzard Brahminy Kite Shikra Black-winged Kite Crested Serpent Eagle Changeable Hawk Eagle White-bellied Fish Eagle Greg-headed Eagle Rain Quail Blue-breasted Quail Barred Buttonquail Sri Lanka Junglefowl (*Sri Lanka's National Bird) Indian Peafowl White-breasted Waterhen Common Moorhen Purple Swamphen Pheasant-tailed Jacana Black-winged Stilt Eurasian Thick-knee Great Thick-knee Yellow-wattled Lapwing Red-wattled Lapwing Black-tailed Godwit Bar-tailed Godwit Eurasian Curlew Whimbrel Common Redshank Marsh Sandpiper Common Greenshank Wood Sandpiper Common Sandpiper Great Crested Tern Whiskered Tern Little Tern Rock Pigeon Spotted Dove Emerald Dove Orange-breasted Green Pigeon Pompadour Green Pigeon Green Imperial Pigeon Sri Lanka Hanging Parrot Alexandrine Parakeet Rose-ringed Parakeet Plum-headed Parakeet Layard's Parakeet Blue-faced Malkoha Asian Koel Sirkeer Malkoha Greater Coucal Pied Cuckoo Sri Lanka Grey Hornbill Malabar Pied Hornbill House Crow Large-billed Crow Malabar Trogon Stork-billed Kingfisher White-throated Kingfisher Black-capped Kingfisher Common Kingfisher Pied Kingfisher Little Green Bee-eater Chestnut-headed Bee-eater Indian Roller Eurasian Hoopoe Coppersmith Barbet Crimson-fronted Barbet Brown-headed Barbet Yellow-fronted Barbet Brown-capped Woodpecker Black-rumped Flameback Greater Flameback Oriental Skylark Richard's Pipit Grey-rumped Treeswift Asian Palm Swift Alpine Swift Little Swift Barn Swallow Red-rumped Swallow Common Woodshrike Large Cuckooshrike Small Minivet Black-headed Cuckooshrike Ashy Woodswallow Black-headed Yellow Bulbul Red-vented Bulbul Yellow-eared Bulbul White-browed Bulbul Yellow-browed Bulbul Black Bulbul Common Iora Jerdon's Leafbird Black-naped Oriole White-rumped Shama Oriental Magpie Robin Black-backed Robin Dark-fronted Babbler Yellow-eyed Babbler Yellow-billed Babbler Zitting Cisticola Grey-breasted Prinia Plain Prinia Ashy Prinia Jungle Prinia Common Tailorbird Black-naped Monarch Asian Paradise-flycatcher White-browed Fantail Dull-blue Flycatcher Great Tit Velvet-fronted Nuthatch Pale-billed Flowerpecker Thick-billed Flowerpecker White-throated Flowerpecker Purple-rumped Sunbird Long-billed Sunbird Purple Sunbird Oriental White-eye Sri Lanka White-eye White-throated Silverbill White-rumped Munia Scaly-breasted Munia Black-throated Munia Black-headed Munia House Sparrow White-bellied Drongo Sri Lanka Myna Hill Myna Common Myna Hill Swallow Mammals: Asian elephant Grey mongoose Black tipped mongoose Spotted deer Purple faced Monkey Grey Langur Monkey Macaque Monkey Palm Squirrel Giant Squirrel Bear Monkey Jackal Black naped Hare Wild boar Water buffalo Small insect bat Leopard Brown mongoose Flying Fox/Giant Fruit Bat Reptiles: Green whip snake Land monitor Water monitor Green forest lizard Common skink Sri Lankan kangaroo lizard Bark gecko House gecko Garden lizard Black lipped lizard Marsh crocodile Salt water crocodile Bronze backed tree snake Taylor striped skink Flapshell turtle Kukri snake (we saw a russell's viper, spectacled cobras and rock pythons with the snake charmers) Butterflies: Ceylon bird wing Crimson rose Ceylon rose Banded peacock Lime butterfly Red helen Common mormon Blue mormon Bluebottle Common jay Jezebel Pioneer Common albatross Lesser albatross Mime Plain tiger Common tiger Common crow Lace wing Blue admiral Slate flash