Bird and Wildlife Team Sri Lanka

Our Strength Is Our Team

Our acclaimed tour leaders will meet your exacting demands in finding birds, mammals and other animals you wish to see in Sri Lanka, India and the Andaman Islands. Based in Sri Lanka, our experience in successful natural history tours for over 25 years in the country is unparalleled.
Why would you choose Bird and Wildlife Team?

A 10 day special mammal tour with Holly Faithfull & Susan Porterfield. We visited low country dry and wet zone with a brief visit to hill country. We encountered 55 species of mammals. Highlights of the trip were seeing all the cats well, all the civets all mongoose (except brown) and all squirrels (except the Travancore flying squirrels)

Rusty-spotted Cat

I got the opportunity to lead the Fiona Read’s Sri Lanka Tour. Fiona has written and/or illustrated numerous mammal guides to northern and south America. I personally think it is a privilege to lead a mammal tour with Fiona. It was a 13 day tour with main focus on mammals. But the group consist of members who interest on birds, reptiles, amphibians, butterflies,dragonflies and also plants. At the end of the tour our mammal list was 61 species which was a new record for me. Our bird list was 211, 14 species of amphibians and 24 species of reptiles as well.

Travancore Flying Squirrel – Petinomys fuscocapillus

I led a special mammal tour for Jon Hall. Jon Hall is an avid mammal watcher who runs the ‘mammal watching.com’ website and currently he is the world No. 1 mammal lister! This was a short special mammal tour. His request was us to suggest a best possible itinerary to see maximum number of mammals in three spare days in his business visit to Sri Lanka.

So I suggested to do a tour in Sigiriya, since it is one our best locations for wildlife and can do it with a minimal travel time during a short visit like this of Jon’s. The tour was very successful, we had 32 species less than 72 hours! Jon’s tour report of this mammal tour with us can be read at – http://www.mammalwatching.com/Oriental/orientsrilanka.html
Lesser False Vampire Bat

Lesser False Vampire Bat (Megaderma spasma). At an abandon house in Sigiriya.

A frog-photographic expedition to the Knuckles range Uditha Hettige 2009-05-08

A well known wildlife photographer Gehan Rajapaksha and myself with our families went on a special photographic expedition to the Knuckles mountain range in May ’09. Aim of this trip was to study and photograph the frogs and dragonflies in the area.

12 species of frogs including Marbled Rock Frog (Nannophrys marmorata), Bigfoot Shrub Frog (philautus macropus) and Hoffman’s Shrub Frog (philautus hoffmanni), and over 15 species of dragonflies and damselflies including Jungle Threadtail (Elattoneura caesia) and Red-striped Threadtail (Elattoneura tenax), were encountered during our three-day stay in the Knuckles.

60+ species of birds including 13 endemics were also observed.

Jungle Threadtail (Elattoneura caesia) Red-striped Threadtail (Elattoneura tenax)
Photo by uditha. Photo by uditha.

Hoffman’s Shrub Frog (philautus hoffmanni) Yellow-fronted Barbet
Photo by uditha. An endemic barbet in the area. Photo by uditha.

2010.06.25 – 26 Birding and photography expediton to Mannar Uditha Hettige 2010-06-25

Kithsiri Gunwardena and my self went on this Mannar expedition to study and record the breeding birds and their behavior there. We encountered breeding Little Terns (Sterna albifrons) and Kentish Plovers (local race Charadrius alexandrinus seebohmi). Bird life was not as rich as during the Northern winter migratory season, but resident birds were in good numbers.

» Young Kentish Plover

Young Kentish Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) was following its parents begging for food. Photo by Uditha Hettige

» Little Tern

a adult Little Tern (Sterna albifrons) Stops to locate it’s youg Photo by Uditha Hettige

Bird and Wildlife Team "The best birdwatching and wildlife holidays in Sri Lanka and in India"

Bird and Wildlife Team Sri Lanka

Bird and Wildlife Team
"The best birdwatching and wildlife holidays in Sri Lanka and in India"