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Sinharaja Forest Reserve
Nestled amidst the lush landscapes of Sri Lanka lies a true natural wonder: the Sinharaja Forest Reserve. This UNESCO World Heritage Site, located in the southwestern part of the island, is a sanctuary of unparalleled biodiversity and ecological significance. Join us on a journey deep into the heart of this enchanting forest, where every step reveals a new marvel of nature.
Embark on an unforgettable adventure into the heart of Sinharaja Forest Reserve and discover the magic of one of Sri Lanka's most precious natural treasures. Whether you're an avid nature enthusiast, a wildlife lover, or simply seeking a moment of tranquility amidst the beauty of the natural world, Sinharaja promises an experience that will leave you awestruck and inspired.
Sinharaja Forest Reserve is renowned for its remarkable biodiversity, boasting a stunning array of flora and fauna found nowhere else on Earth. From towering canopy trees to delicate ferns and vibrant orchids, the forest is a botanical paradise teeming with life. Bird enthusiasts will delight in the opportunity to spot rare and endemic species, including the elusive Sri Lanka blue magpie and the vibrant red-faced malkoha.
Venture into the depths of Sinharaja and encounter a wealth of wildlife that calls this pristine forest home. Keep your eyes peeled for the iconic purple-faced langur, the elusive Sri Lankan leopard, and the vibrant jewel-like hues of endemic butterflies flitting among the trees. With luck, you may even catch a glimpse of the reclusive Sri Lankan elephant or the endemic green pit viper.
Step back in time as you wander through Sinharaja's ancient forests, where towering trees draped in moss and epiphytes create an otherworldly atmosphere. Take a moment to listen to the symphony of sounds that fills the air, from the rhythmic chirping of crickets to the haunting calls of endemic birds echoing through the canopy. Every corner of Sinharaja offers a glimpse into a world untouched by time.
As a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Sinharaja Forest Reserve is protected by law to ensure the preservation of its unique ecosystems for future generations. Conservation efforts aim to safeguard the forest's delicate balance while promoting sustainable tourism practices that minimize impact on the environment. Visitors are encouraged to explore the forest responsibly, leaving nothing but footprints and taking only memories.
Immerse yourself in the breathtaking beauty and unparalleled biodiversity of Sinharaja Forest Reserve, where every moment offers a glimpse into the wonders of the natural world. Join us as we journey into the heart of this UNESCO World Heritage Site and uncover the secrets of one of Sri Lanka's most enchanting destinations.🌴🌳🇱🇰
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Working on a short daemon AU for tcw and here's what I got.
Obi-Wan - European red fox, male (no name yet)
Anakin - African painted dog, female (no name yet)
Ahsoka - Sri Lankan green vine snake, female (no name yet)
Rex - glass frog, female (no name yet)
Cody - leopard seal, female (no name yet)
Depa - eurasian magpie, male (no name yet)
Grey - loggerhead shrike, female (Herenui)
Caleb - Rocky Mountain gray wolf, female (Julia)
Padme - diamondback rattlesnake or canebreak rattlesnake, female (no name yet)
Ezra - unsettled, female (Salimah)
One idea I have is that Stance has a moose daemon and Cal has a rat daemon named Saoirse.
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Discover Sri Lanka's Natural Wonders: Top 5 National Parks for Wildlife Enthusiasts
If you're an avid wildlife enthusiast, Sri Lanka is a paradise waiting to be explored. With its lush landscapes, diverse ecosystems, and a rich variety of fauna, this island nation is a hidden gem for nature lovers. While planning your Sri Lanka Tour Packages, make sure to include a visit to these top 5 national parks that offer unforgettable wildlife encounters. From majestic elephants to elusive leopards, Beaches in Sri Lanka have it all. Join us on a virtual journey to explore these incredible Places In Visit Sri Lanka.
1. Yala National Park
Our wildlife adventure begins with Yala National Park, located in the southeastern part of the island. This park is renowned for its high leopard population, making it one of the best places in the world to spot these elusive big cats. While on your Sri LankaTour Packages, embark on a thrilling jeep safari through Yala's scrubland and forests. Keep your camera ready to capture the mesmerizing sight of a leopard stealthily prowling through the wilderness.
Apart from leopards, Yala is also home to elephants, sloth bears, crocodiles, and a myriad of bird species. The park's stunning coastal scenery adds an extra layer of charm to your wildlife expedition.
2. Udawalawe National Park
Next on our list is Udawalawe National Park, often referred to as the 'Land of Giants.' Udawalawe is known for its large population of Sri Lankan elephants. As you explore this park during your Places In Visit Sri Lanka journey, you'll witness herds of these gentle giants grazing peacefully in their natural habitat. The Udawalawe Reservoir, located within the park, serves as a vital water source and a popular gathering spot for the elephants.
Besides elephants, Udawalawe is home to water buffalos, crocodiles, various species of deer, and a wide array of birdlife. Don't forget to take a boat ride on the reservoir to witness the park's wildlife from a different perspective.
3. Minneriya National Park
Minneriya National Park, located in the North Central Province of Sri Lanka, offers a unique wildlife spectacle that you shouldn't miss during your Sri LankaTour Packages adventure. This park is famous for hosting one of the largest gatherings of wild elephants in the world, known as 'The Gathering.' Between June and September, hundreds of elephants come to the shores of Minneriya Tank to graze and socialize, creating a mesmerizing sight.
Apart from elephants, Minneriya is a birdwatcher's paradise, with over 160 species of birds. Keep an eye out for painted storks, spot-billed pelicans, and various species of eagles soaring above.
4. Wilpattu National Park
Wilpattu National Park, located in the North Western Province, is the largest and one of the oldest national parks in Sri Lanka. The park is characterized by its unique landscape of natural lakes, or 'villus,' surrounded by dense forests. Wilpattu is the ideal destination for those seeking a truly wild experience.
On your Places In Visit Sri Lanka journey to Wilpattu, you can expect to encounter leopards, sloth bears, water buffalos, and a diverse range of bird species. The park's remote and pristine nature ensures a tranquil and unspoiled wildlife experience.
5. Sinharaja Forest Reserve
Our final stop on this wildlife adventure is the Sinharaja Forest Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a biodiversity hotspot. Located in the southwestern part of Sri Lanka, Sinharaja is a primary tropical rainforest that teems with unique flora and fauna. This is the perfect place to immerse yourself in the heart of Sri Lanka's wilderness.
While exploring Sinharaja, you may spot endemic bird species like the Sri Lankan blue magpie and red-faced malkoha. The forest is also home to various reptiles, amphibians, and a rich diversity of insects. It's a paradise for nature enthusiasts and birdwatchers.
In conclusion, Sri Lanka offers an incredible array of national parks and wildlife experiences that are sure to delight any wildlife enthusiast. When planning your Sri LankaTour Packages, don't forget to include visits to these top 5 national parks. From thrilling leopard sightings in Yala to the serene elephant gatherings in Minneriya, Sri Lanka's natural wonders are waiting to be discovered. So, pack your bags, grab your camera, and get ready for an unforgettable journey through the wild side of Sri Lanka.
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A bunch of Magpie heads for practice.
This all started out with me wanting to do the magpie native to California...
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two 1979 Sri Lankan stamps depicting a yellow-eared bulbul and a ceylon blue magpie
[id: two postage stamps, both with detailed illustrations of perching birds. the left depicts a yellow bird with black markings while the right depicts a blue and red bird with interestingly long tail feathers. end id]
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Day 3: Kenku Warlock (F)
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Appearance: “Exceptionally Ugly”
Age: 31
Height: 4′10″
Weight: 68lbs
Trinket: A dragon’s bony talon hanging from a plain leather necklace
Corvid-based designs are so inherently *chef’s kiss* that I don’t know if it’s possible to make them truly “ugly”, but I did take the opportunity to play around with elements from some lesser-known corvids: rook and thick-billed raven for the beak/face, and Sri Lankan Blue Magpie for the eye.
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Sri Lankan Blue Magpie / Ceylon Magpie (කැහිබෙල්ලා) [Urocissa ornata]
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Horton Plains in Sri Lanka - A UNESCO World Heritage
Horton plains situated in Nuwara Eliya District. Nominated as a world heritage list. This plateau at an altitude of 2,100–2,300 meters (6,900–7,500 ft.). It has rich biodiversity. The Horton Plains are the headwaters of three primary Sri Lankan rivers, the Mahaweli, Kelani, and Walawe.
making the relatively dry period of January to March the best time to visit. It provides the home for nearly 7000 plants in Sri Lanka. You can commonly see sambar deer, Leopards, wild boars, mongooses and giant squirrels there.
Also you can see 27 of endemic bird species here. Sri Lankan blue magpie, Sri Lankan white-eye, Sri Lankan wood pigeon and dull-blue flycatcher are the examples. Spend the unique adventurous experience in you Sri Lanka Tour Itinerary
#hortonplains#srilankatrip#unescoheritge#hortonplainssrilanka#srilankaitinerary#srilankatouritinerary
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manwë color idea sketches as a jackdaw, hooded crow & sri lankan magpie
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Did Sri Lanka release a stamp honouring the Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan?
A viral post doing the rounds on social media platforms like Facebook shows that the Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has been featured in stamps used in Sri Lanka. The post is as follows :
Translation : " Dear Mr Pinarayi Vijayan, respectful wishes from the Sri Lankan government.
The Sri Lankan government in a move to appreciate the efforts by the CM, has released a postal stamp in his honour. This is the first time the government of Sr Lanka has used an image of a Malaylee to be featured in their postal stamp. Our heartiest congratulations to the CM for making Kerala proud with your achievements."
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This is a digitally edited image and is not true. The following observations can be made :
The time stamp on the post shows that the postal stamp was issued back in 2017. Records (https://stamps.slpost.gov.lk/) show that no such stamp has been circulated in the country.
The image also mentions the Ceylon Blue Magpie on the side of the stamp where the name of the supposed featured image is to be entered as per the template followed by Sri Lankan stamps.
There is a noticeable font difference as well.
On a closer look, it can be easily understood that the image has been edited onto the stamp.
The official Facebook page of Anti Fake News, Division of Kerala has also released a statement stating that this viral post is fake.
https://www.facebook.com/AntiFakeNewsDivisionKerala/photos/a.103553891316383/111346413870464/?type=3&theater
News organisations like Asianet's fact checking division along with The Indian Express had debunked the same stating that the post was indeed an edit and is fake.
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MEET KUMUDA RAO, INDIA’S CREATIVE MAGPIE
At AD STARS 2019, Leo Burnett India group ECD talked to Little Black Book’s Laura Swinton about the insatiable curiosity that drives her and the importance of feeding your creativity beyond the ad industry. This article is republished courtesy of Little Black Book.
"Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people."
As far as creative curiosity goes, few people embody that famous Leo Burnett quote as fully as Kumuda Rao does. She’s been a lawyer, a furniture upcycler, a director, an actor, a stagehand, a hotelier, a mum, a tech entrepreneur – and she’s got her eye on farming. And, appropriately enough, she’s a dyed-in-the-wool Burnetter, working as a group executive creative director, based in Mumbai.
It’s this compulsive inquisitiveness and willing to throw herself into new experiences, picking up a Swiss Army Knife of skills along the way, that led one college friend to predict that the young law student would end up not in the courtroom but in adland. While still at university, Kumuda ended up helping her friend from the college magazine with his new agency – setting her off on her career.
Kumuda’s first ‘proper’ agency job was at Mudra – now DDB Mudra – where she was one of only two women at the agency. It was the early ‘90s and the management had decided – shockingly – not to hire any women because they ‘might get pregnant’. Kumuda managed to slip in on the merit of her ‘wild and all over the place CV’ and the fact that the agency had just won a sanitary towel account and the men at the agency felt so out of their depth they could barely bring themselves to whisper, let alone say, the word ‘sanitary towel’.
“I thought it was odd because I come from a family where being a female never mattered,” recalls Kumuda. “My mum and grandmother were hardcore feminists. I never had that thing. You go there and you work.”
From there Kumuda went onto Ogilvy, which was like a ‘school’ for advertising. And in 1999, she ended up in Leo Burnett, an agency she describes as her ‘home’ and where she’s worked ever since aside from a short ‘glitch’ where she went to Y&R (an experience she describes as ‘totally traumatic’ as it coincided with her move from her native Bangalore to Mumbai and family illness) and a career break she took when she gave birth to her twins.
This being Kumuda, though, her maternity break also saw her try her hand at commercial directing and also launching and running a beach hut business in Goa with her actor husband. The directing was a callback to her love of the theatre. In Bangalore, where the commute was substantially less time-consuming than it is now in Mumbai, Kumuda had thrown herself into the local theatre scene, where she acted, worked as a stagehand and directed. Back then she found herself drawing on high school French for her acting roles – proof that there’s no such thing as useless education. As a commercial director, her childhood piano lessons came unexpectedly flooding back.
“I was seven months pregnant, with twins. The producer was like… please don’t deliver now! It was too funny. But all my theatre experience came back. When I was sitting with the music supervisor, all my music experience came back,” she recalls. “And I used to bring in all my theatre technique, I’d bring my talent down and talk to them how I would talk to my actors and plot the movements out. It was really good.”
As she started to go back to work with Leo Burnett, she faced a dilemma. To progress any more as a commercial director, she’d have to commit to it full time – in the end her magpie creative mind drew her back to agency life.
At Leo Burnett in Mumbai, Kumuda has worked on huge P&G accounts at a regional level, including ‘Whisper’ (the brand name for Always in Asia and Australia), where she has been striving to break down the same taboos that existed at the very beginning of her career.
“All these myths and misconceptions are very much there - India in some ways is a weird country. Tampons exist as well as all these other methods. Whisper is doing an excellent job trying to bust some of these myths,” says Kumuda. Times, though, are changing. Kumuda’s daughter will speak easily about periods with her dad, and her twin brother will comfortably involve himself in the conversation too.
It’s an account that has focused Kumuda’s mind on the ‘brand purpose’ debate. She’s no fan of disconnected ‘cause-vertising’ that sees a brand tack some cause or other onto its communication in a way that benefits neither the brand nor the purpose. However, India is home to some standout examples of brands zeroing in on difficult social issues that absolutely fit. BBDO’s work for Ariel, ‘Share the Load’, is one such exemplar Kumuda highlights, as well as the social harmony messaging that tea brand Red Label has been running with. At Whisper, the brand has been – ironically – pushing for girls to become more confident and empowered, with 2017’s ‘Sit Improper’ campaign a rallying cry against prim, restrictive expectations (see below).
The agency has also been working on a more proactive basis with its closest clients, leaning into innovation. In 2017 they created ‘Roads That Honk’ for HP Lubricant, a road safety solution. And there are some potentially exciting developments currently in development stage with P&G around changing the makeup of certain products in order to fight malaria. Kumuda talks enthusiastically about Leo Burnett’s Apollo 11 unit, comprising engineers and designers, tasked to come up with non-traditional solutions.
These new and constantly-changing challenges are mana for someone as open to new experiences and adventures as Kumuda. Even though her tapestry of expertise hasn’t been planned, she finds that her past detours still crop up and provide her with useful insights in the most unexpected ways. And she’s still learning. Recently, she started helping a friend of her husband with his tech start up, getting hands-on with the challenges of building a small business in the social age.
Her kids want her to help them start a YouTube channel, though she’s (understandably) somewhat warier about starting down that path with a pair of aspiring influencers. She’s also just bought a piece of land about 160km from Mumbai where she hopes to start an organic farm and fulfil her long-held desire to get involved in architecture. She plans to build a house in the style of Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa and expose her urbanite children to the sort of rural, tree-clambering childhood she experienced in southern India.
Whatever Kumuda turns her hands and mind to next, it’s all fuel for her creativity. Driven by genuine curiosity and passion rather than cold-eyed calculation, she can’t quite predict how those experiences will help her down the line, but she knows that they will. “I think there’s always a reason that you go through whatever you do,” she muses. “All the pieces just fall into place much later.”
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Sri Lanka, a country of colorful tradition, Infinite Ocean, stunning rainforests, gorgeous landscapes and ancient ruins was not on the tourism map few years back. But now the country is back in the game and with its unmatched beauty it has become the hottest destination of 2018.Sri Lanka has many forest reserves and national parks; Sinharaja Forest Reserve is the largest lowland rainforest in Sri Lanka. Home to rare mammals and endemic birds, this UNESCO-listed forest reserve is bordered by rivers. The forest is so lush and dense that it is not easy to spot wildlife here.Unlike most of the other Sri Lankan National Parks, access to this forest is only by foot that too accompanied by a local guide or a ranger. A good guide certainly helps as you can easily walk around the reserve under the guidance of a local who knows the forest excellently. If you have applied for onlineSri Lanka ETA then here is a list of places you can explore in and around the Sinharaja Forest Reserve:1. Kolawenigama Temple- Built by King Buwanekabahu VII, the Kolawenigama Temple is located 6 km southwest of Deniyaya. Although the temple is modest in size, it has a stunning and unique structure that will resembles Kandy`s Temple of the Sacred Tooth Relic. The shrine has Kandyan-style frescoes and was constructed in recognition of the protection given to the tooth relic by the villagers.
2. Mixed Feeding Flock- One of the unusual aspect that is found among the birds here are that they are witnessed in mixed feeding flocks which is one of the rarest things to be seen in the bird kingdom. The mixed feeding flocks are made up of six or more different breeds of birds like the red-faced malkoha, blue magpies and coucal. For birdwatchers, it can be a real treat to watch these mixed flocks of birds. So if you want to witness this unusual thing, apply for online Sri Lanka ETA.
3. Kiruwananaganga Falls- This 60 m high waterfall is located 5 km east of Kotapola on the road towards Urubokka. This impressive waterfall is one of the largest waterfalls to be found in Sri Lanka.
4. Getabaruwa Raja Maha Viharaya- This magnificent rock temple is built in the west of Kotapola, 11km south of Deniyaya. There is a steep road that leads you to the temple which has a seated gilded Buddha and a small stupa.
5. Wildlife- For wildlife lovers, Sinharaja Forest Reserve can be a paradise because 50% of Sri Lanka`s endemic species of mammals and butterflies can be found here. Not just butterflies, but 19 of Sri Lanka`s 20 endemic species of birds are also found here. Some of the major animals that lure the visitors to Sri Lanka are elephants, langurs and leopards.
Experience the wildlife at its best with Sinharaja Forest Reserve in Sri Lanka. If you have not applied for online Sri Lanka ETA yet then you can simply log on to sri-lankaeta.com.
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Next month's ICC Champions Trophy is likely to be fast, furious and full of upsets, according to New Zealand captain Kane Williamson.
Tributes have poured in for Anthony Foster, who dedicated his life to seeking justice for victims of child sex abuse at the hands of the Catholic Church.
ANDREW Swallow's future at North Melbourne is back in the spotlight, with the former skipper axed again ahead of Sunday's clash with Carlton at Etihad Stadium.
Kumar Sangakkara might be just five months shy of his 40th birthday but the Sri Lankan's appetite for scoring runs is as strong as ever.
England's Ben Stokes has been passed fit to play in the second one-day international against South Africa, a team spokesman said Friday.
LATE goals to veterans Shaun Burgoyne and Jarryd Roughead have completed a rousing six-point win for Hawthorn at the SCG, which may well spell the end of Sydney's finals hopes.
AFLW: The emotions of win No. 1 Hear from Lauren Tesoriero, Brittany Bonnici and assistant coach Brendan Major as Collingwood Media goes inside the rooms after the club's first AFLW victory.Leon: From Northam to Collingwood Leon Davis is a favourite son of the Magpie Army.
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