Sri Lanka records over 430 bird species comprising endemic, resident and migrant birds. The wide verity of birds found in Sri Lanka makes it a prime bird watching destinations in the world. Almost all endemic birds has been recorded in Sinharaja Rain Forest. A combined visit to Sinharaja, Bodhinagala, Kitulgala, Hortain Plains, Hakgala, Kandy and National parks in the south including northern forests minneriya and dambulla can cover most of the birds listed.

 

Bee eaters Boobies Button Quails Barn Owl Barbets Bulbuls Babblers	Cuckooshrikes & Minivets Cuckoos Cormorants Crab Plover Chats Robins and Thrushes Crows	Darter Ducks & Geese Drongos
Eagles  and Harriers	Frogmouth Falcons Fantail Flycatchers Frigate Birds Flamingos Flower Peckers Fairly Bluebird	Gulls Grebes
Herons, Bitterns & Egrets Hoopoe Hornbills	Ibises	Jacana
Kingfishers	Leaf birds & Lora Larks	Monarch Flycatchers Munias
Nightjars Nuthatches	Osprey Oystercatcher Owls Orioles	Pitta Pelicans Petrels Pheasants and Quails Painted Snipe Pigeons & Doves Parakeets & Lorikeet Patincoles Plovers Rails
	Rollers	Stilt & Avocet Swallows & Martins Stocks Strom Petrels Sandpipers & Stints Skuas Swifts Sunbirds Swallow Shrikes Shrikes Starlings & Mynas Sparrows
Thick Knees Tropic Birds Terns Tree Swift Trogon Tits	Woodpeckers Warblers Weavers White Eyes

 

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