Gayomini Panagoda

I am a birder. I study ecology, evolution and connectivity patterns of waterfowl migration in Sri Lanka, with a special interest on shorebirds.

[CAFI @CAFInitiative]

Megha is a Heuglin’s Gull who was satellite-tagged in Mannar, Sri Lanka, in 2021 April.
We are excited to tell you Megha is the first known bird to travel to the high Arctic from Sri Lanka!

[CAFI @CAFInitiative]

Megha's first complete journey in 2021, from Mannar to the Yamal peninsula of the Arctic & back to Peninsular India, encompassed an astounding distance of 24,000km. We wish Megha and bird migration science all the best! @BNHSIndia

[Gayomini Panagoda @gayomini]

Today is World Migratory Bird Day, a day meant to commemorate the wonder that our migrant birds carry around in their astounding annual journeys! https://t.co/7nxroCrYYl

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‘Sherpa Tenzing’, our second-tagged Brown-headed Gull from Sri Lanka, flew over the Himalayas at 7600m (24,930 feet), just 20km west of Mt. Everest, on his way to his breeding grounds in the Tibetan plateau, on 18th May 2022! #CentralAsianFlyway https://t.co/VU3e4Xwdh2

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The Himalayan Crossing of Brown-headed Gulls - 2022

Read: https://t.co/kb6OOmOUCX

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‘Guardians of Birds – Mannar’ is a series of school programs that we, Field Ornithology Group of Sri Lanka conduct in colloboration with Oriental Bird Club & Palmyrah House, Mannar, to raise the awareness of children on Mannar's importance for migratory birds.

[Gary Allport @GaryAllport]

Eastern Yellow Wagtail - not Western - is the predominant species in #SriLanka in non-breeding season. See our recent paper @online_BOC here https://t.co/9rMAXndFeP and info slides for those birding in Sri Lanka. Great work also on this now in India too @indianBIRDSJrnl

[Gayomini Panagoda @gayomini]

@capdevila_jesu We have recently uncovered very similar routes from the tagged Heuglin's Gulls in South Asia. It would be interesting to learn more!!
https://t.co/7SST5ryySL

[Taej Mundkur @TaejMundkur]

Wow! First ever Heuglin's Gull tracked 20K km across its annual #migration track from Sri Lanka to its #arctic breeding grounds and back!
Critical info for #CentralAsianFlyway international coop & conservation. @SampathSenevir9
@BonnConvention @WMBD @CAFInitiative @WetlandsInt

[Gayomini Panagoda @gayomini]

@elaphrornis Of course we will do. Sharing in social media was the first step. Thanks for your comment & well-wishes!

[Gayomini Panagoda @gayomini]

We reach a key milestone of our bird migration studies in Sri Lanka, as one of our GPS-tagged Heuglin’s Gulls (nick named ‘Manike’) arrives back in Mannar, after completing a full migration cycle; a 19,360 km round trip to European arctic & back.
https://t.co/qfciz6npPD

[Gayomini Panagoda @gayomini]

@thehillsonfire 06 months & 09 days!!!!!

[Gayomini Panagoda @gayomini]

@madursan 35 days for the northward migration & 91 days for southward migration. All the detailed info is in the fb post.

[Gayomini Panagoda @gayomini]

Read the feature article - 'Mapping the Central Asian Flyway from Sri Lanka' on yesterday's Vidhusara Sinhala newspaper https://t.co/APt1iLcoK2

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A Sri Lankan-tagged Brown-headed Gull crosses the towering Himalayas!
https://t.co/1yDaZeOMlD

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Unraveling the untold story
How satellite-tagging helps us understand more about the epic migrants in Sri Lanka & Central Asian Flyway
https://t.co/SLxNp1nDcM

[ACBK @ACBK_Kazakhstan]

In World Migration Bird Day #WMBD2021 we are welcoming in Kazakhstan the arrival of a bird of Heuglin’s Gull. The bird was tagged by the @FOGSrilanka with Chinese Academy of Sciences in April 2021 and passed a distance of 6500 km!
@CAFInitiative

https://t.co/jr4qJMhXNA