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Common Grasshopper Warbler 13cm Breed in temperate Europe, western Asia, and Russia MIGRATE to Africa, India, and Sri Lanka to spend the winter Diet flying insects, invertebrates Nest concealed on the ground Both parents SHARE incubation 14days, feeding chicks 13days plus 2 weeks after fledging

🌱Ficus benghalensis Conservação: Pouco preocupante (IUCN Red List) A figueira-de-bengala (Ficus benghalensis) ou baniano é uma espécie de figueira endémica do Bangladesh, Índia e Sri Lanka. 📷 Michelle Angela Castello, Kate Turner, B.V. Tejah e mais 2

Lahiru Udara, who is yet to make his ODI debut, replaces Pathum Nissanka in Sri Lanka's squad

🙂 Sri Lanka frogmouth 23cm NOCTURNAL Exclusively native to Western Ghats of SW India and Sri Lanka Diet a wide variety of insects and small invertebrates Nest fork of an evergreen tree. Female lays ONE single egg. Both parents incubate 28days Both feed it 25days, and 2 months after fledging

A Facebook page run from Sri Lanka is posting AI-generated images purporting to show real photos from the scene of breaking news events. https://bit.ly/4yWz1Kc

Sri Lanka’s Galgamuwa is on the front line of one of the world’s most serious human-elephant conflicts reut.rs/4hNCKU5

Adorable Grey-headed canary-flycatcher tiny energetic forest bird measuring 12cm in length Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal Sri Lanka An expert catching tiny insects mid-air! Active and vocal throughout the day, joining larger mixed-species foraging flocks moving through the forest.

I found it. After eighteen years, I found the Fanta I had in Sri Lanka on vacation.

India and the United States are planning a greater strategic cooperation in the Indian Ocean to build crucial infrastructure, including ports and telecommunications networks, in regional nations namely Sri Lanka, Maldives and Mauritius."

As a boy in Sri Lanka, Ray Jayawardhana wrote to NASA’s JPL asking for Voyager photos. Weeks later, a manila envelope arrived, filled with images of distant worlds. Four decades later, he’s president of Caltech, which runs JPL. What a story. explorers.com/ray-jayaward... @nationalacademies.org

"Sucede que me canso de ser hombre." Pablo Neruda. ¿Ho va dir abans o després de la violació a una exòtica noia del servei domèstic a Sri Lanka (on era ambaixador) que explica amb tota la patxorra a «Confieso que he vivido» (1974)

Sri Lanka: A total of over 100 kg of heroin were seized at Kapparathota Beach in Weligama after five suspects, apprehended on a multi-day fishing trawler off Dondra, provided information leading to the bust. 1/2

I love this: "It's time we try to understand a bit more about trade and exchange," Chirikure said, "particularly by comparing the communities in places like Sri Lanka and southern Africa. Because it's the water that separated people, but it was also the water that connected people."

We have three scam investigations from Laos, Vietnam, and movement from Southeast Asia into Sri Lanka. Also: Myanmar’s diaspora raises concerns about normalizing military rule. Hundreds of arrests, deportations continue in Cambodia. We've share the individual articles soon. mekongindependent.com

Transnational corporations are violating Human Rights all over the world, not only on land but at sea. Ravindranath Dabare (CJE / FoE Sri Lanka) explains the X-Press Pearl disaster and the struggle for justice. For communities and environmental justice, we demand a strong, legally #BindingTreaty

In Sri Lanka, human-elephant conflict takes deadly toll reut.rs/4hXqy1R

Children growing up in northern Sri Lanka are still learning how to recognise & avoid landmines and unexploded bombs – remnants of a war they never witnessed. MAG Ambassador Rosamund Pike recently saw why risk education is so vital in communities where explosive hazards remain. ➡️ buff.ly/iJ4qTZk

Separated by sea, Sri Lanka’s cobras hold a distinct genetic identity shaped over millions of years. New research confirms their evolutionary divergence from Indian mainland lineages, shedding light on both taxonomic debate and the island’s rich natural heritage. Malaka Rodrigo reports.

Meanwhile in Sri Lanka

[October 15th, 1986] The Periyapandivirichchan Massacre took place in the Periyapandivirichchan village, located in the Madhu Assistant Government Agent division of Mannar District, Sri Lanka. genocideagainsttamils.com/massacres/pe...