Sri Lankan Birds Details Pdf. Sri Lanka is home to 34 endemic bird species. This is largely due to close taxonomic revisions.
A reader sent me a PDF for a book entitled Endemic Birds of Sri Lanka which includes color images of variable quality. Birds of Sri Lanka. With a rich avifauna of more than 350 species that includes 29 endemics the island of Sri Lanka is one of southern Asias most popular birding destination.
The rst formal account of a Sri Lankan species Sri Lanka Lorikeet was given by George Edwards 1743 in his book Natural History of Uncommon Birds.
Out of these 235 are resident and these include the most important 34 species that are recognized as endemic to the country. All different bird species are grouped on to different plates. Birds of Sri Lanka. The country has one of the richest densities of bird species per square kilometer in the world.