Nilu Rajapakse

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A comms person with a passion for nature and wildlife.

Purple-rumped Sunbird (Leptocoma zeylonica) Species endemic to the Indian Subcontinent.
A Loten's sunbird (Cinnyris lotenius) visits daily these day
Called විවරතුඩුවා/බෙල්ලන් කොකා in Sinhalese.
Waiting to trade in the harvested rubber. The cans are queued up in order of arrival. Rubber is typically grown in the wet zones in Sri Lanka. It's history traces back to the nineteenth century colonial era. One of the key #agriculture crops, we export about 40% the rubber produce in different forms.