Dermot Breen's Blog: pacific golden plover

Saturday, 29 April 2017

Sri Lanka Non-Passerines 25.2.2017

A few of the non-passerines seen in Yala National Park on 25th February. We were lucky to catch up with a single Black-necked Stork on a distant pond while dipping on a Leopard in the morning. This is a very rare species now in Sri Lanka and Yala is the main site for them. A nice selection of waders and other storks also seen during the day including the impressive Great Thick-knee.

Spoonbills

Woolly-necked Storks

Woolly-necked Stork

Black-necked Stork

Painted Stork

Lesser Adjutant

Barred Buttonquail

Crested Hawk-Eagle

White-bellied Sea Eagle

Brahimy Kite

Lesser Whistling Duck

Great Thick-knee

Pacific Golden Plover

Grey Plover

Kentish Plover

Lesser Sand-Plover

Yellow-wattled Lapwing

Little Stint

Curlew Sandpiper

Lesser Sand-Plover and Marsh Sandpiper

Marsh Sandpiper

Common Snipe

Gull-billed Tern

Thursday, 30 March 2017

Sri Lanka 19.2.2017 Part One

Today was another enjoyable day which was largely spent inside Udawalawa National Park on safari. I took a large amount of photos so I've had to split the post into two. One of the trip highlights were a pair of Rain Quail that I managed to pick up out in an open area of grassland. These are rare winter visitors to Sri Lanka and they both gave decent views with a little patience. Birding from a safari jeep had its good and bad points. One of the positives was that wildlife had become habituated to the numerous vehicles which gave some great photography opportunities. One of the negatives was that you didn't have complete freedom to stop where you wanted and spend time on particular species of interest. I'll post another blog post of the passerines and mammals encountered on the same day shortly.