Spotting the birds

‘Birds of Sri Lanka and Southern India’, the second in the popular “Gehan’s Photo Booklet” series has just been launched. The booklet, is a publication by Jetwing Eco Holidays, well known for its expertise in nature tourism. This book contains photographs of 263 of the 444 species of birds recorded in Sri Lanka. It has photographs of 25 of the 33 endemic birds of Sri Lanka and includes many of the common migrant waders and seabirds. Gehan de Silva Wijeyeratne, the CEO Jetwing Eco Holidays, has taken nearly all of the images in this booklet.

This series of booklets comprises of photographic identification guides to the fauna and flora of Sri Lanka. The objective of this series is to make it possible for a much wider audience to be able to learn wildlife at ‘species level’. The first booklet of this series was the Butterflies of Sri Lanka and Southern India.

This is one of the first photographic guides to birds which has the species’ names in three languages (English, Sinhala and Tamil). Priced at Rs. 500 it is available at Sarasavi Bookshop, Vijitha Yapa, ODEL, Barefoot, Lake House Bookshop (Hyde Park Corner) and Jetwing Eco Holidays at Jetwing House, 6th Floor, 46/26, Nawam Mawatha, Colombo 02, during regular office hours.

Those wishing to preview the book can download the pdf file of the book from www.jetwingeco.com. There is no charge for downloading the electronic copy.