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Wildlife at Polonnaruwa
- Wildlife of Sri Lanka
- Polonnaruwa: Hub for Wildlife
- Polonnaruwa Bird List
- Perching Birds
- Woodpeckers and Barbets
- Kingfishers, Bee-eaters, Rollers, Hoopoe
- Swifts
- Nightjars
- Trogons
- Cuckoos, Malkohas and Coucals
- Parakeets and Lorikeets
- Owls
- Eagles, Hawks, Ospreys, Vultures
- Pigeons and Doves
- Fowl, Quails, Partridges
- Buttonquail
- Jacanas, Plovers, Lapwings, Terns, Gulls
- Rails, Crakes, Waterhens and Coots
- Pelicans, Cormorants, Darters
- Petrels, Shearwaters
- Ibises, Storks, Herons, Egrets, Bitterns
- Geese and Ducks
- Grebes
- Primates
- Other Mammals
- Birds of Sri Lanka
- Reptiles, Amphibians & Fish
- Invertebrates
- Ecology of Dry Evergreen Forest
Polonnaruwa Bird List – page 6
| Observed in and around Polonnaruwa | ||
| Pheasant-tailed Jacana, | Hydrophasianus chirurgus | Common |
| Greater Painted Snipe, | Rostratula benghalensis | No record |
| Crab Plover, | Dromas ardeola | No record |
| Common Pied Oystercatcher, | Haematopus ostralegus | No record |
| Black-winged Stilt, | Himantopus himantopus | Common |
| Pied Avocet, | Recurvirostra avosetta | No record |
| Eurasian Thick-knee, | Burrhinus oedicnemus | Rare |
| Great Thick-knee, | Esacus recurvirostris | Common |
| Indian Courser, | Cursorius coromandelicus | No record |
| Collared Pratincole, | Glareola pratincola | No record |
| Oriental Pratincole, | Glareola maldivarum | Rare |
| Small Pratincole, | Glareola lacteal | Rare |
| Yellow-wattled Lapwing, | Vanellus malebaricus | No record |
| Sociable Lapwing, | Chettusia gregaria | No record |
| Red-wattled Lapwing, | Vanellus Indicus | Common |
| Pacific Golden Plover, | Pluvialis fulva | Rare |
| Grey Plover, | Pluvialis squatarola | No record |
| Common Ringed Plover, | Charadrius hiaticula | No record |
| Long-billed Plover, | Charadrius placidus | No record |
| Little Ringed Plover, | Charadrius dubius | Rare |
| Kentish Plover, | Charadrius alesandrinus | Rare |
| Mongolian Plover, | Charadrius mongolus | No record |
| Greater Sand Plover, | Charadrius leschenaultia | No record |
| Caspian Plover, | Charadrius asiaticus | No record |
| Oriental Plover, | Charadrius veredus | No record |
| Black-tailed Godwit, | Limosa limosa | Rare |
| Bar-tailed Godwit, | Limosa iapponica | No record |
| Whimbrel, | Numenius phaeopus | No record |
| Slender-billed Curlew, | Numenius tenuirostris | No record |
| Eurasian Curlew, | Numenius arquata | No record |
| Spotted Redshank, | Tringa erythropus | No record |
| Common Redshank, | Tringa tetanus | No record |
| Marsh Sandpiper, | Tringa stagnatilis | Rare |
| Common Greenshank, | Tringa nebularia | Rare |
| Nordmann’s Greenshank, | Tringa guttifer | No record |
| Green Sandpiper, | Tringa ochropus | Rare |
| Wood Sandpiper, | Tringa glareola | Rare |
| Terek Sandpiper, | Xenus cinereus | No record |
| Common Sandpiper, | Actitis hypoleucos | Common |
| Turnstone, | Arenaria Interpres | No record |
| Red-necked Phalarope, | Phalaropus lobatus | No record |
| Eurasian Woodcock, | Scolopax rusticola | No record |
| Wood Snipe, | Gallinago nemoricola | No record |
| Pintail Snipe, | Gallinago stenura | No record |
| Swinhoe’s Snipe, | Gallinago megala | No record |
| Great Snipe, | Gallinago media | Rare |
| Common Snipe, | Gallinago gallinago | No record |
| Jack Snipe, | Lymnocryptes minimus | No record |
| Asian Dowitcher, | Limnodramus semipalmatus | No record |
| Red Knot, | Calidris canutus | No record |
| Great Knot, | Calidris tertuirostris | No record |
| Sanderling, | Calidris alba | No record |
| Red-necked Stint, | Calidris ruficollis | No record |
| Little Stint, | Calidris minuta | No record |
| Temminck’s Stint, | Calidris temminckii | No record |
| Long-toed Stint, | Calidris subminuta | No record |
| White-rumped Sandpiper, | Calidris fuscicollis | No record |
| Sharp-tailed Sandpiper, | Calidris acuminata | No record |
| Dunlin, | Calidris alpine | No record |
| Curlew Sandpiper, | Calidris ferruginea | No record |
| Spoon-billed Sandpiper, | Eurynorhynchus pygmeus | No record |
| Broad-billed Sandpiper, | Limicola falcinellus | No record |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper, | Tryngites subruficollis | No record |
| Ruff, | Philomachus pugnax | No record |
| South Polar Skua, | Catharacta maccormicki | No record |
| Antarctic Skua, | Catharacta Antarctica | No record |
| Pomarine Jaeger, | Stercorarius pomarinus | No record |
| Parasitic Jaeger, | Stercorarius parasiticus | No record |
| Sooty Gull, | Larus hemprichii | No record |
| Heuglin’s Gull, | Larus heuglini | No record |
| Caspian Gull, | Larus cachinnans | No record |
| Great Black-headed Gull, | Larus ichthyaetus | No record |
| Brown-headed Gull, | Larus brunnicephalus | No record |
| Black-headed Gull, | Larus ridibundus | No record |
| Slender-billed Gull, | Larus genei | No record |
| Whiskered Tern, | Chlidonias hybridus | Common |
| White-winged Tern, | Chlidonias leucopterus | No record |
| Black Tern, | Chlidonias niger | No record |
| Gull-billed Tern, | Gelochelidon nilotica | No record |
| Caspian Tern, | Hydroprogne caspia | No record |
| Bridled Tern, | Onychoprion anaethetus | No record |
| Sooty Tern, | Onychoprion fuscata | No record |
| Common Tern, | Sterna hirundo | No record |
| Roseate Tern, | Sterna dougalli | No record |
| White-cheeked Tern, | Sterna repressa | No record |
| Black-naped Tern, | Sterna sumatrana | No record |
| Great Crested Tern, | Sterna bergii | No record |
| Lesser Crested Tern, | Sterna bengalensis | No record |
| Sandwich Tern, | Sterna sandvicensis | No record |
| Little Tern, | Sternula albifrons | No record |
| Saunders’s Tern, | Sternula saundersi | No record |
| Brown Noddy, | Anous stolidus | No record |
| Lesser Noddy, | Anous tenuirostris | No record |
| Black Noddy, | Anous minutes | No record |