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…

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…