Sri Lankan Birds Details. The Sri Lankan form T. You can also see herds of Elephants.
National Red Data List 1998 was a revision of a work in 1984. 124- Rukmal Ratnayake 3 - Gamini Ratnaweera 5 - Nishanthi Perera. The Sri Lankan junglefowl also known as the Ceylon junglefowl or Lafayettes junglefowl is a member of the Galliformes bird order which is endemic to Sri Lanka where it is the national bird.
It is closely related to the red junglefowl the wild junglefowl from which the chicken was domesticated.
Out of these 235 are resident and these include the most important 34 species that are recognized as endemic to the country. In addition to the many resident birds a considerable number of migratory species winter in the country to escape their northern breeding grounds. The bird life of Sri Lanka is very rich for its size and 505 species have been recorded. Of these 463 26 or so have been identified as endemic species.