An inconspicuous small grey bird with a dark mask through the eye like that of the true shrikes.  The female is duller and browner than the male.  Can be seen all over the low country and hills up to about 1000 metres but commoner in the dry zone.  Does not like dense forest.  It is…

In general colouration this bulbul  has olive green upperparts, brown tail with broad white tips to outer tail feathers, yellow throat and underparts with olive tinge on breast and flanks.  Brown flight feathers and yellow underwing.  Male has red iris and female’s iris coulour is brown.  Occurs in pairs or small parties in open forests…

This unmistakable bulbul has distinctive head markings:  blackish crown, long yellow ear tufts and ear-covert patch, and white tufts from lores.  Olive-green upperparts, brown upperwings and tail, yellow underparts with olive tinge on breast and flanks, yellow underwings.  Sexes alike.  This bulbul is essentially an up-country bird never seen below 1000 metres and not really…

A short, stout thrush with an overall black appearance with a black beak and legs.  The short tail, wings and head are slaty -black with a blue tinge on back, scapulars and breast.  The bright blue patch on the shoulder is often hidden on closed wings.  The female is brown, also with blue shoulder patch. …

A thrush with rich olive brown upperparts, two rows of spots on wing coverts and a characteristic black and white facial pattern.  White underparts with black spots on throat, breast and upper belly.  Sexes alike.  This bird is found throughout low country wet zone and the hills up to about 2000 metres.  A bird of…

A rare shy forest loving ground thrush with olive brown above with rufous buff underparts.  The scaly pattern all over the body and a larger and longer bill with its chunky appearance make identification easy.  It is confined to lower hills and higher elevations.  Spends most of its time on the ground turning over the…

Generally dark with rusty-buff throat, dark grey breast, and rounded tail.  Faint pale eyebrow and pale ring around eye.  Olive-brown upperparts with a rusty tinge on rump, olive-grey belly with rufous tinge on flanks and under tail.  Male has red eye and female pale buff.  This skulking shy bird is essentially an inhabitant of the…

Generally dull blue-grey bird with brighter blue forehead, dark lores white belly and undertail coverts.  Brownish flight feathers and tail.  Sexes alike.  Young ones are brown with buff spots on head, back, wing coverts and breast.  This flycatcher is confined to the hills above 650 metres, but it not common below 1000 metres.  An inhabitant…

A bird with sober colours; brown upperparts with darker brown cap and nape; face, supercilium and underparts are cinnamon or pale rusty.  A jungle loving bird that lives in pairs and found throughout the island.  It ascends the hills to at least 1600 metres.  Sexes alike.  Spends much time on the ground turning over leaves…

This very attractive and slenderly built  babbler has a long yellow down-curved bill, long white eyebrow extending onto nape and black eye-stripe.  Upperparts are rusty brown with a dark brown crown, white underparts with brown flanks, vent and undertail coverts.  Sexes alike.  This bird is found in forests almost everywhere, low country and hill country…