Sri Lanka
What is recorded in Sri Lanka
- Species
- 1,167
- Grid cells
- 6,743
- Records
- 1,455,925
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Insects 549
- Birds 291
- Bony fish 128
- Reptiles 100
- Amphibians 53
- Mammals 34
- Sharks and rays 12
These are species with at least one recorded territory in Sri Lanka, not a national checklist: a bird list from eBird or Avibase is more complete. The counts follow recording effort as much as wildlife, so a country with more visitors and more naturalists will show more of both.
Most recorded here
The species with the most open occurrence records in Sri Lanka, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
Yellow-billed Babbler
Turdoides affinis
Red-vented Bulbul
Pycnonotus cafer
Brown-headed Barbet
Psilopogon zeylanicus
House Crow
Corvus splendens
White-bellied Drongo
Dicrurus caerulescens
Black-hooded Oriole
Oriolus xanthornus
Purple-rumped Sunbird
Leptocoma zeylonica
Pale-billed Flowerpecker
Dicaeum erythrorhynchos
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameri
Spotted Dove
Spilopelia chinensis
Green Imperial Pigeon
Ducula aenea
White-throated Kingfisher
Halcyon smyrnensis
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under Sri Lanka.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers Sri Lanka on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.