This babbler can be easily distinguished from other babblers by its rufous colouration and bright orange bill and legs.  Sexes alike.  Fairly common in all the forests in the wet zone and in the hills to the highest elevations.  Though it is a forest bird it often ventures in to well-wooded gardens in adjacent areas. …

Easily distinguished from the Rufour Babbler by its mainly black bill, dark grey legs, ashy/grey head, pale eyes, and dark reddish-brown back, wings and tail.  It is also a neater looking babbler.  Sexes alike.  It is confined to the deep forests of the wet zone and the adjacent hills.  It ascends to at least 1600…

Can be distinguished from rather similar looking Purple-rumped Sunbird by its short, stout bill.  Males have dark blue-grey upperparts with white tips on outer tail feathers (less apparent in female), white throat and upper breast.  Rest of the underparts are yellow paling to white on undertail coverts.  Females are generally paler with grey-olive upperparts.  This…

Readily distinguished from the Oriental White-eye by its larger size and darker green/jungle green plumage, and also the heavier bill.  The white eye-ring is more widely broken at front than in Oriental.  Lower breast, belly and flanks are greyish-white.  Sexes alike.  Often forms large scattered flocks.  It is found only in the hills above 1000…

Previously considered a race of the Greater Racket-tailed Drongo which occurs in the dry zone.  The frontal crest, glossy black plumage and long, deeply-forked tail without the rackets make it easy to identify.  A very vocal mimic that imitates a variety of birds.  Sexes alike.  It inhabits the tall forests of the wet zone ascending…

This large beautiful bird cannot be mistaken for any other Sri Lankan species.  Mainly bright blue with red bill, and eye-ring and legs; chestnut head and neck; long graduated blue tail with black and then white tip.  Sexes alike.  It inhabits the forests of the hills and wet-zone foot-hills.  A scarce bird seen in small…

A sleek slenderly built bird with white forehead, face, throat and undertail coverts.  The white of the head merges streakily into the greenish-grey-black of the back, wings and tail while the white throat shades into the smokey-grey of the breast and underparts which are streaked with white.  The bill colour is pale greyish-green and the…

A glossy black bird with a pair of yellow wattles on the nape and a white wing patch.  Very pale grey eye, black-based orange-red bill.  Sexes alike.  This can be easily distinguished from the Southern Hill Myna (the only other Sri Lankan bird with which this can be confused) by the presence of only a…