| The systematic work on hornbills
of Sri Lanka, started with the inception of the Zoological Survey
of Sri Lanka: Avifaunal Survey conducted by the National Science Foundation
(then NARESA), with the financial support from the SAREC. In the final
report submitted in 1992, a set of maps of distribution of Hornbill
species was included, with a distribution comparison to that of Legge
(1880), virtually a century ago. It revealed a drastic recession in
both their distribution and abundance. A
status report was sent to the Asian Hornbill Network in 1992, and
it was recognized as the country report for the First International
Hornbill Workshop held in Bangkok, 1992. As a result of the above
workshop, a hornbill research project was initiated by the name
of Hornbill Project Sri Lanka, with the prime objective to conserve
the hornbills and their habitats. The outcomes of these research
activities were represented the subsequent Second and the Third
Hornbill workshops held in 1996 and 2001 respectively. |
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With expansion of the knowledge and expertise,
and the increase in need, the Hornbill Project Sri Lanka has now
planned a multidisciplinary, two-year research programme to obtain
more qualitative and quantitative data on ecology and biology of
the hornbills. |
