Bird Watching (Birding)

Its a scientific hobby that can give immense pleasure to its practitioners.(an illustrated guide to the birds of sri lanka - Sarath Kotagama/Gamini Ratnavira) 
It is a meditation. You can be there, where a bird feeds, you can be there, where a bird flies, you can be there where a bird rests, for hours.

                                                    pic by Dinali Jayasinghe

Sri Lanka Magpie (Urocissa ornata)

pic by Prasanna Rumesh Kumarathilaka

Sri Lanka is a delightful country with rich wild life. Among of these animals, birds are awesome. Sri Lanka has its own avian specialties - more than twenty endemic species and over seventy races (a field guide to the birds of sri lanka - john harrison) found only in Sri Lanka.