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Brown-headed Barbet

Megalaima zeylanica

Description:

Plump green bird with brown head, and yellow eye patch. Short neck, large head and short tail. Big fat heavy looking bill.

Habitat:

Sigiriya,Sri Lanka near Sigiriya rock, near jungle. It has been raining for day but this day it was dry. It was 12.30.

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3 Comments

Muckpuk
Muckpuk 9 years ago

Thanks NuwanChathuranga and LauraMaria
I added Biodiversity of Sri Lanka to my missions but somehow can not change my post at the moment. The page does not load completely and then gets stuck. I will definitely try again tomorrow. Thanks, I was hoping to find a Mission related to Sri Lanka. I have many spottings! Yay

LauraMaria
LauraMaria 9 years ago

He is wonderful! Gorgeous bird, and great photo!

NuwanChathuranga
NuwanChathuranga 9 years ago

beautiful! please consider adding to "Biodiversity of Sri Lanka" mission, Thanks!
https://www.projectnoah.org/missions/895...

Muckpuk
Spotted by
Muckpuk

Sri Lanka

Spotted on Dec 25, 2014
Submitted on Jan 5, 2015

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