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Serendib Scops Owl (Otus thilohoffmanni)
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August 17, 2025
The Serendib Scops-Owl (Otus thilohoffmanni) is one of Sri Lanka’s greatest ornithological discoveries and the country’s most recently described endemic bird, first
Sri Lankan Green’s Silverline (Cigaritis greeni)
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July 6, 2025
C. greeni, a distinctive butterfly species, inhabits the unique highland plateau of Horton Plains in Sri Lanka. Found amidst stunted vegetation and
Chaerephon plicatus(Wrinkled-lipped Free-tailed bat)
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July 6, 2025
First recorded in Sri Lanka in 1931 from Kumbalgamuwa, was initially identified as a subspecies based on three specimens collected by Phillips
Hipposideros srilankaensis (Sri lanka leaf nosed bat)
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July 6, 2025
Hipposideros srilankaensis: the newly identified bat species endemic to Sri Lanka! It was long misclassified as H. galeritus, but recent research based