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	Magpie - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		The magpies are medium to large, often colorful and noisy passerine birds of the crow family, Corvidae.
		The names 'jay', 'treepie' and 'magpie' are to a certain extent interchangeable, not reflecting any genuine genetic difference between the groups.
		The Australian Magpie has the fl and white colours of a magpie, but it is not a magpie (or a corvid).
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Magpie (321 words)

	Environment Sri Lanka - Sinharaja rain forest - Ecotourism Nature Travel
		Birds considered to be endangered or rare (Hoffmann, 1984) are Sri Lanka wood pigeon Columba torringtoni, green-billed coucal Centropus chlororhynchus, Sri Lanka white-headed starling Sturnus senex, Sri Lanka blue magpie Cissa ornata, and ashy-headed babbler Garrulax cinereifrons, all of which are endemic, and red-faced malkoha Phaenicophaeus pyrrhocephalus.
		Of Sri Lanka's 830 endemic species, 217 trees and woody climbers are found in the lowland wet zone (Peeris, 1975).
		It is bounded on the north by the Napola Dola and Koskulana Ganga, on the south and south-west by the Maha Dola and Gin Ganga, on the west by the Kalukandawa Ela and Kudawa Ganga and on the east by an ancient footpath near Beverley Tea Estate and by the Denuwa Kanda.
	www.environmentlanka.com /ecotour/sinharaja.html (2115 words)

	Activity of RICOH
		Surrounding area of Sinharaja Forest Reserve located in southwest of Sri Lanka, registered as the world natural heritage in 1989 (The total area is about 112 square kilometer.) is no exception at all.
		Thus, Ricoh worked on Sri Lanka Wild Bird Ornithology Research Group and launched in 1999 the activities to plant saplings of natural forest for the purpose of connecting the divided forests.
		While particularly remarkable "Sri Lanka Blue Magpie" is a representative bird, it is an endangered species, as recorded in the Asian Red Data Book publicized in 2000.
	www.ricoh.co.jp /ecology/ecotoday/english/html/05srilanka/katsudou.html (525 words)

	Birding Trip Report to Sri Lanka 1999
		Sri Lanka has something like 26 endemic species (depending on whose taxonomy you follow) including some superb birds such as Red-faced Malkoha.
		Sri Lanka is the stronghold for this globally threatened bird.
		The common drongo in Sri Lanka, frequent in the wet lowlands and lower hills e.g.
	www.bubo.org /trips/srilan01.htm (6724 words)

	IUCN - Sri Lanka Country Office
		The Sri Lanka Blue Magpie is between a mynah and house crow in size, but has a long and much graduated tail.
		This attractive bird is endemic and hence its population is restricted to Sri Lanka.
		It's numbers are increasingly dwindling due to the loss and fragmentation of its habitat - especially due to the rapid destruction of wet zone rain forests in the island.
	www.iucn.org /places/srilanka/iucnnew/soptlight23.htm (363 words)

	Sri Lanka Eco Tours: Ultimate Eco Adventure Experience (14 days) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The reserve is an ideal destination among bird watchers as it is a habitat of the Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush.
		After breakfast, we continue driving to Kandy, Sri Lanka's hill capital stronghold of the Sinhala kings, repository of culture, religious center is Sri Lanka's most beautiful town - where the famous Dalada Maligawa another world heritage site - is, is a very important place to visit.
		Wasgamuwa National Park, centrally located province, provides diverse microhabitats for fauna and flora of the area; 23 species of mammals, 143 of the 428 species of birds found in Sri Lanka, of these, 8 species are endemic to Sri Lanka, 17 species of reptiles and 5 of their endemic.
	www.sri-lanka-tour.com /eco-tour/ecoslk-05.htm (1528 words)

	Magpie - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The names 'jay' and 'magpie' are to a certain extent interchangeable, and do not accurately reflect the evolutionary relationship between these birds.
		(2005), magpies do not form the monophyletic group they are traditionally believed to be; a long tail has certainly evolved (or shortened) independently in multiple lineages of corvid birds.
		Among the traditional magpies, there appear to be 2 evolutionary lineages: One consists of Holarctic species with fl/white coloration and is probably closely related to crows and Eurasian jays.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magpie (511 words)

	Sri Lanka Trip Report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sri Lanka is an extremely beautiful island, with a well-established tourist infrastructure that enables birders to visit prime habitats, whilst staying in some very nice hotels.
		Limosa’s tours to Sri Lanka focus on the southern half of the island, the lush forests of the 'wet zone' being home to all of the endemic birds, while the dry zone and montane forests bring in a wealth of characteristically Indian species and support an exciting array of winter visitors, often in huge numbers.
		Sri Lankan and peninsular Indian birds are perhaps separable from Large-billed Crow of eastern Asia and the Himalayas as Jungle Crow, C.
	www.naturalist.co.uk /reports2005/srilanka.php (7773 words)

	travelsrilanka - Birdlife - Sri Lanka
		Sri Lanka is fortunate in having a rich diversity of avifauna, in fact one of the richest in any comparable area of South Asia.
		Then there is the Sri Lanka hanging parrot, which has a red cap, yellow nape, and bright green wings and breast.
		Sri Lanka is an excellent bird watching destination because a great variety of birds can be viewed within a relatively short space of time.
	www.travelsrilanka.com /index.cfm?PAGE=467 (489 words)

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		This report covers my trip to Sri Lanka in November 2003 as part of a tour organised by Naturetrek and their ground agents in Sri Lanka, Baurs Travel.
		Sri Lanka proved to be a wonderful country with magnificent scenery and full of smiling people who always seemed pleased to see you.
		Sri Lanka's highest town at around 1900 metres in elevation, it is situated in the heart of the islands tea industry.
	uk.geocities.com /birdingam/sri_lanka_2003.htm (1970 words)

	RedOrbit - Reference Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Sri Lanka Blue Magpie or Ceylon Magpie (Urocissa ornata) is a striking member of the Crow family.
		It can be found in the hill forests as well as the dense wet evergreen rain forests of Sri Lanka, where it is endemic.
		Sri Lanka Blue Magpie is about the same size as the European Magpie measuring 42 - 47 cm.
	www.redorbit.com /education/reference_library/?article_id=1097 (218 words)

	Limosa Holidays - Gallery
		Our 2003 tour to Sri Lanka focussed on the southern half of the island, the lush forests of the ‘wet zone’ being home to the 26 endemic bird species of that country, and also support an exciting array of winter visitors.
		Top Sri Lankan ornithologist Deepal Warakagoda was our local leader and, thanks to his intimate knowledge of the island, we were able to visit a wide variety of great birding locations from coastal wetlands to scrubby grasslands, jungle and montane forests.
		Sri Lankan and peninsular Indian birds are perhaps separable from Large-billed Crow of E. Asia and the Himalayas as C.
	www.limosaholidays.co.uk /tripReportDetail.cfm?reportID=262 (5756 words)

	Ornitholidays tour Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This was it, the first birding of the tour and the first group bird was appropriately a Sri Lanka Frogmouth picked out in the beam of Deepal’s torch quite close to the track after it responded to playback.
		The race seen in Sri Lanka is the nominate capensis, which is the one with the dark chocolate brown head.
		It is a potential split for the race occurring in Sri Lanka is thought to be a distinct species by local birders.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /ornitholidays/srilanka.htm (9816 words)

	Birdwatching and Wildlife Holidays in Sri Lanka with The Travelling Naturalist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sri Lanka's appeal runs much deeper than this, however, for the one-time island of Ceylon also has many specialities shared only with southern India.
		A visit to Sri Lanka is even more welcome during the late autumn or early spring - not just so we can enjoy some unseasonable sunshine and warmth, but because this enchanting tropical isle is also a winter retreat for large numbers of birds from farther north.
		Sinharaja is home to more than half of Sri Lanka's endemic species of mammals and butterflies, and all but one of Sri Lanka's wonderful endemic birds.
	www.naturalist.co.uk /tours2005/srilanka.php (1890 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is drained by an intricate network of streams, which flow into the Gin Ganga on the southern boundary and Kalu Ganga, via the Napola Dola, Koskulana Ganga and Kudawa Ganga, on the northern boundary.
		Sinharaja Forest Reserve is the last viable remnant of Sri Lanka's tropical lowland rain forest; over 60% of the trees are endemic and many of these are rare; and there are 21 endemic bird species, and a number of rare insects, reptiles and amphibians (IUCN Technical Evaluation).
		Gunatilleke, C.V.S. and Gunatilleke, I.A.U.N. Phytosociology of Sinharaja - a contribution to rain forest conservation in Sri Lanka.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/wh/sinharaj.html (3021 words)

	Sinharaja (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Sinharaja Rain Forest is one of the least disturbed and biologically unique lowland rain forests now remaining in Sri Lanka.
		In fact 95% of the endemic birds of Sri Lanka are recorded in Sinharaja.
		The rarest endemic birds to be seen are the red-faced Malkoha, Sri Lanka blue Magpie, the Ashy-headed Babbler, the White-headed Starling and the Green-billed Coucal.
	www.panlanka.com /panlanka/destin/sinharaja.htm (143 words)

	Sri Lanka
		Participants on this one-week birdwatching trip to Sri Lanka were: Jeff Blincow, Robert Bullock, Nigel Goodgame, Mark Piper, Nick Roberts and Rob Woodall.
		Sri Lanka also has a very high number of sub-species and we made an effort to see these as well(we saw 45 out of 58).
		Sri Lanka Stilt is already split by Howard and Moore and so was viewed as number 27 by me.
	atschool.eduweb.co.uk /jblincow/triplist/srilanka.htm (688 words)

	Sri Lanka, Birding Tours & Trips - birding tours, birding cruises - Victor Emanuel Nature Tours
		The delightfully luxuriant scenery of the Pearl of the East perfectly complements the charming suite of endemic birds to be found on Sri Lanka.
		With a large number of exciting endemics, as well as a host of other Asian birds and mammals, Sri Lanka presents a fantastic opportunity for all wildlife enthusiasts.
		Sri Lanka is teeming with birds, including a large number of rather fancy endemics.
	www.ventbird.com /tour/240 (418 words)

	Sri Lanka 2000
		Sri Lanka Junglefowl are the most obvious endemics, with several males seen well in forest clearings.
		I was distracted by a feeding flock but then looked across the bank and saw a male Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush on the water's edge under overhanging vegetation.
		I picked up a pair of Dull Blue Flycatchers here, as well as a pair of Nilgiri Blackbirds eating fruit in a tree (they looked different to the European version, and were much more shy, but the quiet "chuck-chuck" call sounded familiar).
	www.camacdonald.com /birding/tripreports/SriLankaCH00.html (1563 words)

	Birds
		It is also the only locality where 18 out of 20 birds species endemic to Sri Lanka may be viewed.
		the White-eye, the Scaly Thrush (Zoothera dauma), the Wood Pigeon (Columba torrigtoni), the Dusky Blue Flycatcher (Muscicapa sordida) and the Yellow-eared Bulbul (Pycnonotus penicillatus).
		The wide variety of habitat-specific birds seen in Sinharaja is due to the continuous expanse of forest ranging from 300 to 1,500 meters, which provides the habitat of the forest is comparatively better studied than the other groups of animals.
	www.sinharaja.4t.com /pages/birds.htm (618 words)

	Birdwatching and Wildlife Holidays in Sri Lanka with The Travelling Naturalist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A visit to Sri Lanka is even more welcome during Europe's late autumn or early spring months - not just so we can enjoy some unseasonable sunshine and warmth, but because this bewitching tropical isle is also a winter retreat for large numbers of birds from farther north.
		Sri Lanka is not only a beautiful island, but its generally excellent tourist infrastructure allows wildlife enthusiasts to travel through prime habitats whilst, in the main, staying at some extremely nice hotels.
		Strident calls and whistles often herald the arrival of Sri Lankan Crested Drongos which accompany mixed foraging parties and, as the afternoon cools and the exotic chorus of cicadas and tree-frogs begins, we'll watch for two of the island's rarest and shyest endemics: Green-billed Coucal and Spot-winged Thrush.
	www.naturalist.co.uk /tours2006/srilanka.php (2507 words)

	Flickr: Photos from Dr Hiran Amarasekera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This symposium was organized by Department of Forestry and Environment Science, University of Sri...
		Sri Lanka blue magpie or Kahibella is an endemic bird to Sri Lanka.
		Horn lizard Ceratophora tennentii, endemic lizard to Sri Lanka.
	www.flickr.com /photos/environmentlanka (208 words)

	Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Sri Lanka offers a new and exciting wildlife experience in an enchanting paradise setting.
		Our tour has been planned to encompass a variety of Sri Lanka’s habitats, from the high cloud forest to its beautiful coastline, and we have a real chance of seeing some rare and beautiful specialities, with the added interest of Elephant herds, elusive Leopards, Star Tortoises, colourful lizards and a dazzling array of butterflies.
		Sri Lanka is simply a delightful Island, which has a good infrastructure and therefore allows nature lovers to experience prime habitats whilst, generally, still being able to enjoy good accommodation.
	www.avianadventures.co.uk /tours/srilanka.htm (960 words)

	Birdwatching trip report - Sri Lanka - surfbirds.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Two Sri Lanka Grey Hornbills showed well in the woodland together with Golden-fronted Leafbird, Common Iora, Asian Paradise-flycatcher and Oriental White-eye whilst around the moat of the fortress we found our first Stork-billed Kingfisher, Paddyfield Pipits and White-browed Fantails.
		Almost immediately Deepal heard a whistling-thrush and soon we all were treated to superb views of a male Sri Lanka Whistling-thrush.
		Within a few minutes we were having superb views of a perched Sri Lanka Frogmouth, the perfect end to a perfect day.
	www.surfbirds.com /mb/trips/sri-lanka-pm-0403.html (3637 words)

	OBC \| publications \| Guide to Sri Lanka
		With the exception of the endangered Sri Lanka Whistling Thrush and the scarce Sri Lanka Bush Warbler all of the endemics have been recorded at Sinharaja.
		Those who only wish to see the Sri Lankan specialities can skip the low country dry zone sites in the proposed itinerary and proceed to the hill zone from Kitulgala or Ratnapura.
		Of the 468 species and subspecies recorded in the island, the keen birder can expect to see 230 or more (including 20 or so endemics) on a well timed two week visit, when the migrants are in.
	www.orientalbirdclub.org /publications/bullfeats/sinharaj.html (729 words)

	Sinharaja Rain Forest sri lanka eco destinations attractions and sites accomadation hotels resorts travel and tours
		The lowland rainforest of Sinharaja is the largest expanse of lowland rainforest in Sri Lanka.
		It is one of the critically important sites for a vast number of endemic fauna and flora, which are threatened due to deforestation.
		In this tour we aim to see close to 16 of the 27 endemic birds of Sri Lanka, which include Red-faced Malkoha and Sri Lanka Blue Magpie.
	www.ecotourism-culturaltourism.com /sinharaja_rain_forest.htm (277 words)

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