sunnuntai 17. huhtikuuta 2016

sasri2016 - Animals and wildlife of Sri Lanka

I have met so many different species on this trip.
Here are some that I remember...

Birds
Peacocks (in Yala, at the roof of Mirissa's hotel Riverside Cabanas, Wellawaya hotel's field opposite my chalet)
Sri Lankan Jungle Fowl
Green bee-eater
Colourful red bird that has migrated from India
Eagle, at least three different specimens, maybe two different species (Yala for two different species, while driving from Sigiriya to Nilaweli which probably was same as other one in Yala)
White-throated kingfisher
Egrets
Pelicans
Smaller birds
Crows (specially in Nilaweli)

Reptiles
Three different toad species (in Yala, Horton Plains, at reception of Hotel Sigiriya all were different species)
Land monitors (in Sigiriya hotel roaming around grounds and at Yala)
Crocodiles (big and babies)
Skink (multiple? at Lion's rock at least)
Smaller lizards ( at least 4 different species, two or three different at Lion's rock)
Snake, small black (Horton Plains )

Elephants
Wild elephants (Yala)

Bugs
Grasshoppers (over Hotel Sigiriya's room 56 sign (my room) and it was there together with a Gekko)
"Kaskas"
Beetles
Bees
Wasps or something like them
Monkeys
At least three different species
purple faced monkey (that doesn't look like purple face) in Horton Plains,
special grey monkey with long tail running on power lines in Sigiriya center)
Common monkeys  (besides roads like at Ella, in Mirissa's Riverside Cabanas hotel's backyard, Dambulla's temple, Hotel Sigiriya's yard)

Butterflys
So many different species, that I have no count of them, but it can't be less than 10 species)
White with black
Yellow ( most common)
Small and quick blue winged
Something that looked like admiral butterfly
Big blue butterfly
And others

Bats
Bats (in Nine Arched Bridge's tunnel and at the pool of Hotel Sigiriya )

Deer (Yala and Horton Plains )
Sambal (Yala and Horton Plains )

Rabbit (In Nilaweli)


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