This week I am travelling in my imagination to Sri Lanka. The postcard features some of the fauna of Yala National Park, a wildlife sanctuary in the south east of the country. One of its strap lines is "Glorious Past and Spectacular Present" for the area was a centre of ancient civilizations, so this combines two things I love, nature and history. It sounds as though Yala National Park has everything, monsoon forests, freshwater and marine wetlands and many other ecosystems. It closes for a few months during the drought season but last year the rains came early so it reopened early. It also closes during the mating season of the native Sri Lankan leopard (
Panthera pardus kotiya).Yala National Park is also known for the number of birds that can be seen in this area of 378 square miles (979 sq kilometres) which totals 215 species. It is appropriate that the stamps the card came with were two birds endemic to Sri Lanka -
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| 1993: Birds of Sri Lanka |
the Ceylon Hill Mynah and the Ceylon Brown Capped Babbler. Both species are known for their calls. The Capped Babbler nests on the ground in forest undergrowth and is difficult to see but they are noisy birds so one will definitely hear them.
Yala is marked on the map by the Sri Lankan elephant on the south east corner.
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