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Nightjar Caprimulgus europaeus added to Nick Weston's Britain 2025 year list (BOU), 12 Jul 2025. 186 species

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Sri Lanka - Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka (FOGSL)

The checklist of the birds of Sri Lanka is based upon the Revised avifaunal list of Sri Lanka produced by the Field Ornithology Group Of Sri Lanka. This follows BirdLife International for taxonomy. As an alternative with more up to date taxonomy, we recommend the IOC Sri Lanka list.

Thanks to Chinthaka Kaluthota for providing the list to us in electronic format.

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NB: Species name for the old taxon should be updated to differentiate it from the split taxa using '[lumped]', e.g. Species A [lumped].
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NB: Notes only allow up to 255 characters, but there is no enforcement of this. Anything longer will be truncated without warning.