Sri Lanka

Native species

trivial name	latin name	exhibits in the collection
Black-headed Gull	Chroicocephalus ridibundus	12
Common Buzzard	Buteo buteo	32
European Bee-eater	Merops apiaster	7
Common Barn-owl	Tyto alba	16
Common Kestrel	Falco tinnunculus	16
Eurasian Woodcock	Scolopax rusticola	9
Orange-headed Thrush	Geokichla citrina	2
Peregrine or Barbary Falcon	Falco peregrinus	6
Common or African Cuckoo	Cuculus canorus	8
Black Kite	Milvus migrans	9
Grey Heron	Ardea cinerea	7
Common Snipe	Gallinago gallinago	10
Long-legged buzzard	Buteo rufinus	2
Alpine Swift	Tachymarptis melba	3
Dunlin	Calidris alpina	36
Asian Paradise-flycatcher	Terpsiphone paradisi	2
Eurasian Oystercatcher	Haematopus ostralegus	11
White Wagtail	Motacilla alba	11
Common Kingfisher	Alcedo atthis	21
Common Teal	Anas crecca	7
Bar-tailed Godwit	Limosa lapponica	6
Great Bittern	Botaurus stellaris	10
Eurasian coot	Fulica atra	4
Indian Peafowl	Pavo cristatus	2
Bluethroat	Luscinia svecica	11
Blue Rock Thrush	Monticola solitarius	3
Blue-tailed Bee-eater	Merops philippinus	2
Sandwich tern	Thalasseus sandvicensis	2
Glossy ibis	Plegadis falcinellus	1
White-throated Kingfisher	Halcyon smyrnensis	7
Wood Sandpiper	Tringa glareola	3
Greater Painted-snipe	Rostratula benghalensis	5
Barn Swallow	Hirundo rustica	31
Eurasian Curlew	Numenius arquata	6
Western Marsh Harrier	Circus aeruginosus	8
Eurasian Golden Oriole	Oriolus oriolus	9
Common Redshank	Tringa totanus	25
Common sandpiper	Actitis hypoleucos	10
Blue-breasted Quail	Coturnix chinensis	1
Zitting Cisticola	Cisticola juncidis	1
House Sparrow	Passer domesticus	21
Ruff	Calidris pugnax	3
Eurasian Wigeon	Mareca penelope	13
Northern Pintail	Anas acuta	9
Greylag Goose	Anser anser	3
Western Great Egret	Ardea alba	4
Ruddy Turnstone	Arenaria interpres	5
Common Greenshank	Tringa nebularia	3
Northern shoveler	Spatula clypeata	9
Gadwall	Mareca strepera	3
Red Knot	Calidris canutus	15
Spotted Redshank	Tringa erythropus	1
White's Thrush	Zoothera aurea	5
Parasitic Jaeger	Stercorarius parasiticus	2
Osprey	Pandion haliaetus	4
Eurasian Hoopoe	Upupa epops	11
Little Ringed Plover	Charadrius dubius	9
Common Tern	Sterna hirundo	10
Grey Wagtail	Motacilla cinerea	11
Pied kingfisher	Ceryle rudis	4
Eurasian Collared-Dove	Streptopelia decaocto	6
Whimbrel or Hudsonian Curlew	Numenius phaeopus	1
Corn Crake	Crex crex	4
White Stork	Ciconia ciconia	5
Jungle Bush-Quail	Perdicula asiatica	1
Great cormorant	Phalacrocorax carbo	6
Tufted duck	Aythya fuligula	5
Black Stork	Ciconia nigra	5
Common Emerald Dove	Chalcophaps indica	2
Indian Scops Owl	Otus bakkamoena	2
Ring-necked Parakeet	Psittacula krameri	1
Indian Roller	Coracias benghalensis	2
Common Myna	Acridotheres tristis	3
Grey Plover	Pluvialis squatarola	10
Lesser Whitethroat	Sylvia curruca	9
Oriental Skylark	Alauda gulgula	1
Garganey	Anas querquedula	4
Western Cattle Egret	Bubulcus ibis	1
Little or House Swift	Apus affinis	3
Short-tailed shearwater	Ardenna tenuirostris	2
Malabar Pied-Hornbill	Anthracoceros coronatus	1
Brown wood owl	Strix leptogrammica	1
Pied Bushchat	Saxicola caprata	2
Black-crowned night-heron	Nycticorax nycticorax	3
Plum-headed parakeet	Psittacula cyanocephala	2
Purple Swamphen	Porphyrio porphyrio	2
Purple Heron	Ardea purpurea	2
Greater flamingo	Phoenicopterus roseus	5
Rosy Starling	Sturnus roseus	1
Collared Pratincole	Glareola pratincola	2
Red-wattled Lapwing	Vanellus indicus	2
Pied Avocet	Recurvirostra avosetta	4
Velvet-fronted Nuthatch	Sitta frontalis	2
Sanderling	Calidris alba	2
Common Ringed Plover	Charadrius hiaticula	4
Blue-headed Wagtail	Motacilla flava	11
White-rumped Shama	Copsychus malabaricus	15
Kentish Plover	Charadrius alexandrinus	2
Little Egret	Egretta garzetta	2
Curlew Sandpiper	Calidris ferruginea	1
Pomarine Jaeger	Stercorarius pomarinus	2
Pin-tailed Snipe	Gallinago stenura	1
Black-winged Stilt, Common Stilt	Himantopus himantopus	1
Black-capped Bulbul	Pycnonotus melanicterus	2
Common Moorhen	Gallinula chloropus	5
Black-tailed Godwid	Limosa limosa	1
Green Sandpiper	Tringa ochropus	2
Eastern Buzzard	Buteo japonicus	1
Temminck's Stint	Calidris temminckii	4
Whiskered tern	Chlidonias hybrida	2
Montagu`s Harrier	Circus pygargus	1
Woolly-necked Stork	Ciconia episcopus	1
Cinnamon Bittern	Ixobrychus cinnamomeus	1
Jack Snipe	Lymnocryptes minimus	3
Little Tern	Sterna albifrons	3
Little Stint	Calidris minuta	3
Little Grebe	Tachybaptus ruficollis	2
Grey Francolin	Francolinus pondicerianus	1
White-breasted waterhen	Amaurornis phoenicurus	2
Indian or Fairy Pitta	Pitta brachyura	1
Golden-fronted leafbird	Chloropsis aurifrons	1
White-throated Munia	Euodice malabarica	1
White-rumped Munia	Lonchura striata	2
Scaly-breasted Munia	Lonchura punctulata	2
Lesser Crested-Tern	Thalasseus bengalensis	1
Black Tern	Chlidonias niger	2
Great Black-headed Gull	Larus ichthyaetus	2
Black-headed Munia	Lonchura malacca	1
House Crow	Corvus splendens	4
Greenish Warbler	Phylloscopus trochiloides	3
Brown Shrike	Lanius cristatus	1
Long-tailed Shrike	Lanius schach	1
Booted Eagle	Hieraaetus pennatus	2
Scarlet Minivet	Pericrocotus flammeus	4
Dimorphic Reef-Egret	Egretta gularis	1
Oriental Magpie-Robin	Copsychus saularis	5

Introduced species

trivial name	latin name	exhibits in the collection
Rock Pigeon	Columba livia	4
Java sparrow	Padda oryzivora	4

Vagrant species

trivial name	latin name	exhibits in the collection
Eurasian Sparrowhawk	Accipiter nisus	13
Mallard	Anas platyrhynchos	9
Amur Falcon	Falco amurensis	1
Lesser black-backed gull	Larus fuscus	14
Great Snipe	Gallinago media	1
Spotted Sandpiper	Actitis macularius	2
Slender-billed gull	Chroicocephalus genei	1
Common Grasshopper-Warbler	Locustella naevia	7
Spotted Flycatcher	Muscicapa striata	12
Short-eared Owl	Asio flammeus	7
Common Rosefinch	Carpodacus erythrinus	1
Common Quail	Coturnix coturnix	4
Eurasian Wryneck	Jynx torquilla	14
Common pochard	Aythya ferina	3
Japanese white-eye	Zosterops japonicus	1
Black-headed Bunting	Emberiza melanocephala	3
Black-capped Kingfisher	Halcyon pileata	1
Red-crested Pochard	Netta rufina	2
Yellow-rumped Flycatcher	Ficedula zanthopygia	1
Pacific Swift	Apus pacificus	1
Red-necked Phalarope	Phalaropus lobatus	1
Lesser kestrel	Falco naumanni	1
Ruddy shelduck	Tadorna ferruginea	1
Red-throated Pipit	Anthus cervinus	1
Black-naped Oriole	Oriolus chinensis	1
Sand Martin	Riparia riparia	8
Water Rail	Rallus aquaticus	6
Streaked Shearwater	Calonectris leucomelas	1
Egyptian vulture	Neophron percnopterus	2
Caspian Gull	Larus cachinnans	11
Sooty Gull	Larus hemprichii	1
Dusky Warbler	Phylloscopus fuscatus	7