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Parakrama Samudraya. (Tank)

Parakrama Samudraya. (Tank)

Jasmine(Nyctanthes arbor-tristis), night flowering jasmine

Jasmine(Nyctanthes arbor-tristis), night flowering jasmine

Green Forest Lizard(Calotes calotes)/Pala Katussa

It's a common lizard with wide distribution from low lands plains to mid hills. It is highly arboreal and found in both forest and anthropogenic habitats such as home gardens, plantations, etc. It's a common lizard with wide distribution from low lands plains to mid hills. It is highly arboreal and found in both forest and anthropogenic habitats such as home gardens, plantations, etc...

Green Forest Lizard(Calotes calotes)/Pala Katussa

It's a common lizard with wide distribution from low lands plains to mid hills. It is highly arboreal and found in both forest and anthropogenic habitats such as home gardens, plantations, etc. It's a common lizard with wide distribution from low lands plains to mid hills. It is highly arboreal and found in both forest and anthropogenic habitats such as home gardens, plantations, etc...

Common Garden Lizard (Sri Lanka) Calotes versicolor

Calotes versicolor versicolor (Daudin, 1802); Common Garden Lizard (E); Gara Katussa (S)
We found this lizard at the a garden. Calotes versicolor versicolor (Daudin, 1802); Common Garden Lizard (E); Gara Katussa (S)
We found this lizard at the a garden..

Water monitor (Varanus salvator)

The Asian water monitor.
Family: Varanidae
Adult Size: The third longest lizard in the world, attaining maximum lengths of 8½ to 9 feet. Most adults range between 3 and 5 feet in length.

Range: Eastern India and Sri Lanka, eastward through southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Habitat: Tropical forests.
Water monitors come from the family Varanide whose members include the largest and heaviest of the lizards. In this group the water monitors are second in size only to the Komodo Monitors. Water monitors can grow up to lengths of eight feet but they are typically about half this size. They are covered with scales that are round and protruding, and on their abdomen they have smooth scales that resemble squares. The Asian water monitor.
Family: Varanidae
Adult Size: The third longest lizard in the world, attaining maximum lengths of 8½ to 9 feet. Most adults range between 3 and 5 feet in length.

Range: Eastern India and Sri Lanka, eastward through southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Habitat: Tropical forests.
Water monitors come from the family Varanide whose members include the largest and heaviest of the lizards. In this group the water monitors are second in size only to the Komodo Monitors. Water monitors can grow up to lengths of eight feet but they are typically about half this size. They are covered with scales that are round and protruding, and on their abdomen they have smooth scales that resemble squares.

Water monitor (Varanus salvator)

The Asian water monitor.
Family: Varanidae
Adult Size: The third longest lizard in the world, attaining maximum lengths of 8½ to 9 feet. Most adults range between 3 and 5 feet in length.

Range: Eastern India and Sri Lanka, eastward through southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Habitat: Tropical forests.
Water monitors come from the family Varanide whose members include the largest and heaviest of the lizards. In this group the water monitors are second in size only to the Komodo Monitors. Water monitors can grow up to lengths of eight feet but they are typically about half this size. They are covered with scales that are round and protruding, and on their abdomen they have smooth scales that resemble squares. The Asian water monitor.
Family: Varanidae
Adult Size: The third longest lizard in the world, attaining maximum lengths of 8½ to 9 feet. Most adults range between 3 and 5 feet in length.

Range: Eastern India and Sri Lanka, eastward through southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Habitat: Tropical forests.
Water monitors come from the family Varanide whose members include the largest and heaviest of the lizards. In this group the water monitors are second in size only to the Komodo Monitors. Water monitors can grow up to lengths of eight feet but they are typically about half this size. They are covered with scales that are round and protruding, and on their abdomen they have smooth scales that resemble squares.

Water monitor (Varanus salvator)

The Asian water monitor.
Family: Varanidae
Adult Size: The third longest lizard in the world, attaining maximum lengths of 8½ to 9 feet. Most adults range between 3 and 5 feet in length.

Range: Eastern India and Sri Lanka, eastward through southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Habitat: Tropical forests.
Water monitors come from the family Varanide whose members include the largest and heaviest of the lizards. In this group the water monitors are second in size only to the Komodo Monitors. Water monitors can grow up to lengths of eight feet but they are typically about half this size. They are covered with scales that are round and protruding, and on their abdomen they have smooth scales that resemble squares. The Asian water monitor.
Family: Varanidae
Adult Size: The third longest lizard in the world, attaining maximum lengths of 8½ to 9 feet. Most adults range between 3 and 5 feet in length.

Range: Eastern India and Sri Lanka, eastward through southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Habitat: Tropical forests.
Water monitors come from the family Varanide whose members include the largest and heaviest of the lizards. In this group the water monitors are second in size only to the Komodo Monitors. Water monitors can grow up to lengths of eight feet but they are typically about half this size. They are covered with scales that are round and protruding, and on their abdomen they have smooth scales that resemble squares.

Little Cormorant/ Punchi Diyakawa (Phalacrocorax niger)

Little Cormorant is very common resident bird in water bodies of low country. Large flocks can be seen in dry zone and occasional visitors in the hills. It is a good swimmer as well as a diver and while fishing it can stay underwater for a while and re-emerged some distance from where it dives. Usually it sits for long period on a dead tree, half sub-merged rock or river bank with its wings spread to dry them up. It breeds during North-East monsoons starting from October to April in colonies on trees standing in water in tanks, often with many other water birds such as Indian cormorants, night herons, pond herons, egrets, storks, etc.
They are all dark coloured or black and have stout beaks with a strongly hooked tip, long necks that can be distended, retracted and twisted with ease, long streamlined bodies, long tails and wide round wings. Little Cormorant is very common resident bird in water bodies of low country. Large flocks can be seen in dry zone and occasional visitors in the hills. It is a good swimmer as well as a diver and while fishing it can stay underwater for a while and re-emerged some distance from where it dives. Usually it sits for long period on a dead tree, half sub-merged rock or river bank with its wings spread to dry them up. It breeds during North-East monsoons starting from October to April in colonies on trees standing in water in tanks, often with many other water birds such as Indian cormorants, night herons, pond herons, egrets, storks, etc.
They are all dark coloured or black and have stout beaks with a strongly hooked tip, long necks that can be distended, retracted and twisted with ease, long streamlined bodies, long tails and wide round wings.

Little Cormorant (Phalacrocorax niger) & a water monitor (Varanus salvator)

Little Cormorant is very common residen. Usually it sits for long period on a dead tree, half sub-merged rock or river bank with its wings spread to dry them up..They are all dark coloured or black and have stout beaks with a strongly hooked tip, long necks that can be distended, retracted and twisted with ease, long streamlined bodies, long tails and wide round wings.Captive juvenile water monitors will do well on a diet that consists of fish, frogs and an occasional newborn rodent. As adults, water monitor diets can include more rodents and other small mammals, insects, mollusks and fish. Little Cormorant is very common residen. Usually it sits for long period on a dead tree, half sub-merged rock or river bank with its wings spread to dry them up..They are all dark coloured or black and have stout beaks with a strongly hooked tip, long necks that can be distended, retracted and twisted with ease, long streamlined bodies, long tails and wide round wings.Captive juvenile water monitors will do well on a diet that consists of fish, frogs and an occasional newborn rodent. As adults, water monitor diets can include more rodents and other small mammals, insects, mollusks and fish.

Common Garden Lizard (Sri Lanka) Calotes versicolor

Calotes versicolor versicolor (Daudin, 1802); Common Garden Lizard (E); Gara Katussa (S)
We found this lizard at the a garden. Calotes versicolor versicolor (Daudin, 1802); Common Garden Lizard (E); Gara Katussa (S)
We found this lizard at the a garden..

Green Forest Lizard(Calotes calotes)/Pala Katussa

It's a common lizard with wide distribution from low lands plains to mid hills. It is highly arboreal and found in both forest and anthropogenic habitats such as home gardens, plantations, etc. It's a common lizard with wide distribution from low lands plains to mid hills. It is highly arboreal and found in both forest and anthropogenic habitats such as home gardens, plantations, etc...

Green Forest Lizard(Calotes calotes)/Pala Katussa

It's a common lizard with wide distribution from low lands plains to mid hills. It is highly arboreal and found in both forest and anthropogenic habitats such as home gardens, plantations, etc. It's a common lizard with wide distribution from low lands plains to mid hills. It is highly arboreal and found in both forest and anthropogenic habitats such as home gardens, plantations, etc...

Common Garden Lizard (Sri Lanka) Calotes versicolor

Calotes versicolor versicolor (Daudin, 1802); Common Garden Lizard (E); Gara Katussa (S)
We found this lizard at the a garden. Calotes versicolor versicolor (Daudin, 1802); Common Garden Lizard (E); Gara Katussa (S)
We found this lizard at the a garden..

Water monitor (Varanus salvator)

The Asian water monitor.
Family: Varanidae
Adult Size: The third longest lizard in the world, attaining maximum lengths of 8½ to 9 feet. Most adults range between 3 and 5 feet in length.

Range: Eastern India and Sri Lanka, eastward through southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Habitat: Tropical forests.
Water monitors come from the family Varanide whose members include the largest and heaviest of the lizards. In this group the water monitors are second in size only to the Komodo Monitors. Water monitors can grow up to lengths of eight feet but they are typically about half this size. They are covered with scales that are round and protruding, and on their abdomen they have smooth scales that resemble squares. The Asian water monitor.
Family: Varanidae
Adult Size: The third longest lizard in the world, attaining maximum lengths of 8½ to 9 feet. Most adults range between 3 and 5 feet in length.

Range: Eastern India and Sri Lanka, eastward through southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Habitat: Tropical forests.
Water monitors come from the family Varanide whose members include the largest and heaviest of the lizards. In this group the water monitors are second in size only to the Komodo Monitors. Water monitors can grow up to lengths of eight feet but they are typically about half this size. They are covered with scales that are round and protruding, and on their abdomen they have smooth scales that resemble squares.

Common Garden Lizard (Sri Lanka) Calotes versicolor

Calotes versicolor versicolor (Daudin, 1802); Common Garden Lizard (E); Gara Katussa (S)
We found this lizard at the a garden. Calotes versicolor versicolor (Daudin, 1802); Common Garden Lizard (E); Gara Katussa (S)
We found this lizard at the a garden..

Water monitor (Varanus salvator)

The Asian water monitor.
Family: Varanidae
Adult Size: The third longest lizard in the world, attaining maximum lengths of 8½ to 9 feet. Most adults range between 3 and 5 feet in length.

Range: Eastern India and Sri Lanka, eastward through southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Habitat: Tropical forests.
Water monitors come from the family Varanide whose members include the largest and heaviest of the lizards. In this group the water monitors are second in size only to the Komodo Monitors. Water monitors can grow up to lengths of eight feet but they are typically about half this size. They are covered with scales that are round and protruding, and on their abdomen they have smooth scales that resemble squares. The Asian water monitor.
Family: Varanidae
Adult Size: The third longest lizard in the world, attaining maximum lengths of 8½ to 9 feet. Most adults range between 3 and 5 feet in length.

Range: Eastern India and Sri Lanka, eastward through southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines.
Habitat: Tropical forests.
Water monitors come from the family Varanide whose members include the largest and heaviest of the lizards. In this group the water monitors are second in size only to the Komodo Monitors. Water monitors can grow up to lengths of eight feet but they are typically about half this size. They are covered with scales that are round and protruding, and on their abdomen they have smooth scales that resemble squares.

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