FOGSL checklist on BUBO Listing

BUBO Listing is a new approach to an old activity; comparing birding lists. Whilst frowned upon by the more serious-minded, bird listing is as vibrant, active and exciting as ever. Put two birders in a room together and before too long they'll know if the other saw the 2006 Long-billed Murrelet in Devon!

BUBO Listing is an attempt to provide a free, flexible and widely used site for the comparison of birding lists. The more people that use BUBO Listing, the better it will become for all users.

BUBO Listing is an online database similar to ‘Sri Lanka Birds’ which is familiar to Sri Lankan bird watchers. BUBO Listing provides facilities to record bird lists across the globe, simply for any country.

BUBO Listing recently accepted FOGSL checklist (Revised avifaunal list of Sri Lanka) as the official checklist for Sri Lanka.

‘Revised Avifaunal List of Sri Lanka’

Download pdf version of the “Revised avifaunal List of Sri Lanka” by C.D. Kaluthota and Prof. S.W. Kotagama at the web site of the Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka.

Last taxonomic list of birds was published in 2006 as a part of National effort to document the fauna of Sri Lanka. However, due to recent advancement in researches in the region, taxonomy of birds undergone several changes.

Since, FOGSL now adopts the standards devised by BirdLife international on the avian taxonomy, it was necessary to revise the Avifaunal list. “Revised Avifaunal List of Sri Lanka” discusses the taxonomic changes in family level as well as species level, those relevant to Sri Lanka. It also provides complete list of birds recorded from Sri Lanka including new additions in recent years.

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