Conservation Urban Wildlife Series: Red-wattled Lapwing (Vanellus indicus)
If you have ever been in a peaceful slumber, only to be suddenly woken up by what sounds like a bicycle bell on steroids…… Read the note

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Updates from our fieldwork, research, conservation projects and the wildlife of Colombo’s urban wetlands.
Conservation Urban Wildlife Series: Red-wattled Lapwing (Vanellus indicus)
If you have ever been in a peaceful slumber, only to be suddenly woken up by what sounds like a bicycle bell on steroids…… Read the note
Conservation Urban Wildlife Series: Spectacled Cobra (Naja naja)
Very few animals, very few, can even come close to the effect that the spectacled cobra (Naja naja) has on Sri Lankan culture and… Read the note
Conservation Urban Wildlife Series: Asian Palm Civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus)
Ever been woken up in the middle of the night from a peaceful slumber, from what sounds like a parrot being strangled by a… Read the note
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