1995An unfamiliar call is heard in the rainforest at Kitulgala.
Look Again.
You've Seen the World. But Have You Really?
A different perspective on the extraordinary world we share.
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Anyone can look at a bird for a second. Dr. Malith Nandasena has spent years looking longer, until he had photographed every endemic bird of Sri Lanka.
Into the forest
34 birds that live nowhere else on Earth.
One island, four worlds
See all 34 species
Every print tells you where to look
A list that is still growing
Sri Lanka's birds are still being discovered.
19952001The bird behind the call is finally seen, in Sinharaja.
2004It is described as new to science: the Serendib Scops Owl.
2022The Sri Lanka Shama is recognised as a species of its own.
Look again. The list is not finished.
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Africa
Great herds, open plains and the long light of the savannah.
Enter the collection
Alaska
Salmon rivers, cold coasts and animals with the whole of the north to themselves.
Enter the collection
The birder behind the lens
An avid birder before he is anything else, Dr. Nandasena has photographed all of Sri Lanka's endemic birds, and has taken the same way of looking to the wildlife of Africa and Alaska.
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