tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-526510271653057192026-05-09T14:10:02.377+05:30Discover the wildlife of the biodiversity hotspot and tropical island Sri Lanka. Amila Kanchanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02420798952972198675noreply@blogger.comBlogger194125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52651027165305719.post-35155849612843579922022-12-10T14:38:00.002+05:302023-07-02T10:25:03.173+05:30

Tufted gray langur (Semnopithecus priam)This guy just popped up at a car park beside my workplace this morning. Spectators all wondered how he got there, this species is not naturally found around Kurunegala. He seemed pretty tamed too, and willingly accepted bananas and stuff from people. He was not around by the noon. 

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Blue Sprite, Pseudagrion microcephalum

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Dwarf panchax/Aplocheilus parvus/උඩ්ඩා male      

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This little snake was curled up in my compost pile. Found it as I was turning the pile. Captured it in a jam jar and filmed it, then released it in a nearby abandoned land. I will be grateful for any help pinning down an ID on this one.

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Yellow Featherleg,Copera marginipes Female

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ID? Images reserved of all rights.

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Common Pierrot (Castalius rosimon)

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Purple Coot or Purple Swamphen (Porphyrio porphyrio)    

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Larva of Blue Tiger butterfly (Tirumala limniace)

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Plexippus petersi, a Jumping Spider

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Purple-rumped Sunbird (Leptocoma zeylonica)

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Common Green Forest Lizard (Calotes calotes) juvenile

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Yep, the title of this post shows exactly what I said to my self when I spotted this little weirdo on a blade of grass on the edge of the driveway last Sunday. It was a  surprisingly bold creature, not skittish as most of the arthropods I've tried to photograph, but was all hell-bent on not letting me take a descent enough still macro. It was quite a leaper, could launch itself from one spot

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Indian Stone-curlew or Indian Thick-knee (Burhinus indicus)     Posted for Camera Critters   and Wild Bird Wednesday.

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Robberfly, ID Pleas? View exif data  All rights reserved. Posted for Macro Monday and Camera Critters

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Indian Stone-curlew or Indian Thick-knee (Burhinus indicus) Shot using Olympus SP 800 UZ  Settings: 1/500ƒ/5.6ISO 160  147 mm All rights reserved Posted for Camera critters and wild bird Wednesday.  

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Posted for Macro Monday and Camera critters.

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Posted for Macro Monday  and

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Endemic Yellow-eared Bulbul (Pycnonotus penicillatus)     Common Bluebottle(Graphium sarpedon)   Red-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer)                              &

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Purple-faced Leaf Monkey{Endemic}                                    Brown-headed Barbet                     &

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Many parts of Sri Lanka has just recovered from a very long drought, and it's endless rain, floods, landslides, you name it. None of the disasters around where I live, but bad news keep coming from around. It was quite a shock seeing what Sandy did over there in America, nothing like I've ever seen. I just wish these extreme conditions will cease to be, globally.   I'm not updating this

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Alexandrine Parakeet (Psittacula eupatria), male  Crested Serpent Eagle, (Spilornis cheela) ? Asian Paradise Flucatcher

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I cant believe  I let my internet usage go over-limit in the first week of   a billing cycle! But I just did that, and there goes my connection speed down. You can hardly do anything online with a speed of 64kbps, hence the one month absence. But I'm back in the game again, so let's see  what I've shot all this time. We visited my parents at my old place at Panadura on 15th

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Hello folks, I have got a few birds to show you, all in video. I simply didn't manage to make any good stills this week. Here's a Shikra tearing at an Oriental Garden Lizard that it snatched off the ground in my garden. Not a very good video, you can't see what the bird id eating, or the bird it self properly because of the impossible place it perched on our t tree,   but I thought I'd

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