While staying at Bandarawela, we made a brief visit to Horton Plains National Park. Here, I was able to see some of the Hill Country's commoner endemics:
Sri Lanka white eyes, Sri Lanka scimitar babblers, dull-blue flycatchers and
yellow-eared bulbuls. As always, areas of grassland in the park also held many birds:
pied bushchats, paddyfield pipits, brown shrikes, Jerdon's bushlarks and
blue-tailed bee-eaters were abundant. A lone raptor, probably a
black kite, perched on a shrub and gave us great views. Several
purple-faced leaf monkeys and
giant squirrels were seen, but strangely no sambar were present at all, despite their abundance on previous visits.
DULL-BLUE FLYCATCHER
Eumyias sordidus
PADDYFIELD PIPIT
Anthus rufulus
JERDON'S BUSHLARK
Mirafra affinis
BLUE-TAILED BEE-EATER
Merops philipinus
PIED BUSHCHAT
Saxicola caprata
BROWN SHRIKE
Lanius cristatus
BLACK KITE
Milvus migrans
PURPLE-FACED LEAF MONKEY
Trachypithecus vetulus
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