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…