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Sinharaja Forest Reserve - 'A World Heritage
Site'
It is Sri Lanka's oldest rainforest, and boasts tall trees growing
close together which act as a canopy for the walkers below. It is
inhabited by water monitors, torque macaques, leopard, giant squirrel
and purple-faced leaf monkey.
Bird life includes Ceylon Spurfowl, Ceylon Junglefowl, Ceylon Wood
Pigeon, Sri Lanka Hanging Parrot, Layard's Parakeet, Red-faced Malkoha,
Green-billed Coucal, Chestnut-backed Owlet, Ceylon Grey Hornbill,
Yellow-fronted Barbet, Ceylon Small Barbet, Black-capped Bulbul, Spotted-winged
Thrush, Brown-capped Babbler, Orange-billed Babbler, Ashy-headed Laughing
Thrush, Ceylon Blue Magpie, Ceylon White-headed Starling, Ceylon Hill
Munia, Ceylon Hill Myna, Malabar Trogon, Black Bulbul, Indian Scimitar
Babbler, Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, Green Imperial Pigeon, Velvet-fronted
Nuthatch and Yellow-browed Bulbul.
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