The Fauna at the Udawattekele Forest Sanctuary
Udawattakele is a famous birdwatching site. About 80 bird species have been recorded in the sanctuary.
The endemic bird species are:
1.Layard's parakeet
2.Yellow-fronted barbet
The yellow-fronted barbet has green plumage with a yellow crown and blue patches below the eyes, on the throat and the chin. It is 21–22 cm (8.3–8.7 in) long and weighs 57–60 g (2.0–2.1 oz). It feeds on berries, fruits and occasionally insects. It nests in a tree hole, where it lays 2-3 eggs.
3.Brown-capped babbler
The brown-capped babbler is an endemic resident breeding bird in Sri Lanka. Its habitat is forest undergrowth and thick scrub. This species, like most babblers, is not migratory, and has short rounded wings and a weak flight.
4.Sri Lanka hanging parrot
The Sri Lanka hanging parrot is a small hanging parrot that is 13 cm long with a short tail. The adult has a red crown and rump. The nape and back have on orange tint. The chin and throat are pale blue. The beak is red and the irises are white.
5.The rare three-toed kingfisher/Ceyx erythacus has been observed occasionally at the pond.
6.Common hill myna
7.Golden-fronted leafbird
The Golden-fronted leafbird adult is green-bodied with a black face and throat bordered with yellow. It has dark brown irises and blackish feet and bill.It has a yellowish orange forehead and blue moustachial line (but lacks the blue flight feathers and tail sides of blue-winged leafbird). Young birds have a plain green head and lack the black on their face and throat. The black of the face and throat appears slightly duller in females.
8.Blue-winged leafbird
9.Spotted dove
10.Emerald dove
11.Tickell's blue flycatcher
12.White-rumped /shama
13.Crimson-fronted barbet
14.Brown-headed barbet crested serpent eagle
15.Brown fish owl
Despite the forest reserve being completely surrounded by Kandy and its suburbs, there are many kinds of mammals, most of which are nocturnal.
endemic mammals that live in the sanctuary are;
1.Pale-fronted toque macaque (Macaca sinica aurifrons)
The toque macaque is a reddish-brown-coloured Old World monkey endemic to Sri Lanka, where it is known as the rilewa or rilawa (Sinhala: රිළවා), (hence the English word "rillow"). Its name refers to the whorl of hair at the crown of the head, reminiscent of a brimless toque cap.
2.Golden palm civet
The golden palm civet (Paradoxurus zeylonensis) is a viverrid endemic to Sri Lanka. It is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. Its distribution is severely fragmented, and the extent and quality of its habitat in Sri Lanka's hill regions are declining.
3.Mouse deer
(Moschiola meminna)
Moschiola meminna is a species of even-toed ungulate in the chevrotain family (Tragulidae).
Head and body length in the species typically is 55–60 cm. It is dull brown in color with three or four dotted white stripes going longitudinally along flank.
4.Slender loris
The slender lorises (Loris) are a genus of loris native to India and Sri Lanka. Slender lorises spend most of their life in trees, traveling along the tops of branches with slow and precise movements. They are found in tropical rainforests, scrub forests, semi-deciduous forests, and swamps. The primates have lifespans of approximately 15 years and are nocturnal. Slender lorises generally feed on insects, reptiles, plant shoots, and fruit.
5.Dusky palm squirrel
The Nilgiri striped squirrel (Funambulus sublineatus) is a threatened species of rodent, a small squirrel (Sciuridae) from rainforests in the southern Western Ghats. It formerly included Funambulus obscurus from Sri Lanka as a subspecies, at which point the English name of the "combined species" also was dusky striped squirrel (a name now restricted to the Sri Lankan species).
Other mammals are;
1.Indian muntjac
2.Indian boar
3.Porcupine (Hysterix indica)
4.Asian palm civet
5.Small Indian civet
6.Ruddy mongoose
7.Indian giant flying squirrel
8.Greater bandicoot rat
9.Indian pangolin
10.Greater false vampire bat
11.Indian flying-fox
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