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A Sri Lankan blog
Bird and Nature Blogs
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Day 3 - The dawn chorus - Jun 30th 2025 Red-vented Bulbul (Pycnonotus cafer) I love the mornings when the crow chorus is muted and I hear the other members of the dawn orchestr...
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The common iora - Chicks - Cikgu Azimah Abdullah AreXie aka "Tuan Tanah Kedaung" found this baby bird on 22 April 2023. The bird landed in her front yard after the heavy rain. She to...
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Birding Shanghai in June 2025 - June is not a great month for birding in Shanghai, though better than July. My highlight was a rather friendly Fairy Pitta early in the month – but that de...12 hours ago
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First Look At A Grasshopper Sparrow In Years! - There's only a few select areas where you regularly see Grasshopper Sparrows in Connecticut. Years ago their was a large area of land in East Hartford wh...
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BirdFinder – A wordy puzzle for bird nerds - BirdFinder, a new puzzle by The Green Ogre, is exactly what you need to spend time away from time-wasting online habits and apps that do the thinking for you3 weeks ago
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Force of Nature – George Fell, Founder of the Natural Areas Movement - This is a review of Force of Nature – George Fell, Founder of the Natural Areas Movement by Arthur Melville Pearson George Fell was born in 1916 in Elgin...2 months ago
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Head In The Clouds - Caitlyn emailed me from Princeton ‘I am delighted to let you know about this one-of-a-kind illustrated guide to clouds, cloud formations, and the artists w...
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Rundum Highland, Tenom - 9th - 13th January 2024 Bird survey with the Sabah Birdwatchers Association at Rundum Highland, revealed some of the exciting mixture of species from ...
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The Site is Dead, Long Live the Site - I'm moving house. Over the past few years, Blogger has become somewhat less user-friendly behind the scenes. Nothing major, and certainly nothing I'm going...2 years ago
Blogs continued
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පන් වඩුකුරුල්ලා (Ploceus manyar flaviceps) - පන් වඩුකුරුල්ලා පහත රට වියලි කලාපයේ වගුරු බිම් සහ වැව් ඉවුරු වල දැකිය හැකි උස් පන් ගාල් වල ස්ථානීය වශයෙන් සුලභ දේශීයව අභිජනනය කරන පක්ෂියෙකි. ප්රධාන වශයෙ...
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Common Kingfisher - Thalangama, Sri Lanka - Common Kingfisher photographed at Thalangama this morning. The bird was far away and I had to crop the image a fair bit. It was pretty quiet from a bi...
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I Want To Be A Nationalist - Whichever direction I glance in it seems that Nationalism is on the rise. Be it Sinhala Buddhist Nationalism over your way, the good old US Trump flavoure...6 years ago
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Fashion that doesn't bleed! - Been a very very long time since I wrote something on the blog... :) But moving and being busy doesn't really help. So becoming vegetarian (again) was...9 years ago
Amila Salgado
- Amila Salgado
- Colombo, Sri Lanka
- I am a naturalist guide specialising in bird watching and wildlife tours. I have keen interests in Theravada Buddhism and Vedic Astrology. I became an ardent Buddhist in October, 2012 after meeting Venerable Waharaka Abhayaratanalanka--who attained the Supreme Bliss of Nibbana in February, 2017. I studied at St. Peter's College, Colombo 4.