White Rumped Shama
The bird was singing extensively while we were waiting for Munna Tiger to be on a jungle road at Indri at Kanha National Park. He was at the end of the run extremely feeble and sick. The white-rumped shama regaled as we were in for a long wait. The erstwhile dominant tiger took his own time to arrive so in the time available I made a video of the best singing avian in India. I resorted to making a short clip as the frequent movement of the safari jeeps made it almost impossible to make a long video.
White Rumped Shama is frequently encountered in the jungles of Kanha and the song is unmistakably melodious and engaging.
Song Video White Rumped Shama
(Copsychus malabaricus)
In summer the hollow melancholic resounding Coo-Coo is heard almost uninterrupted. The spotted dove along with the Red-Breasted or Coppersmith Barbet, Brown-Headed Barbet, and the peacock pheasant forms a melodious background orchestra familiar to all naturalists and nature lovers in Central India. Kanha National Park is no exception, and it is one of the best places to familiarize yourself with bird watching if you are a beginner. For professionals, it's a hotspot for forest species.
Magpie Robin erupts into a long-drawn melodious song courting song in summers. This is the resident species and quite common. But the song is a veritable treat bird watchers should not miss.
Magpie Robin Song
Summer is the mating time for many forest species and Kanha is the place to enjoy the sights and songs of amazing species of courting and nesting birds. With more than two hundred fifty avian species it is a paradise for bird watchers. In winter migrants arrive to be with the forest fraternity but few Palearctic deep divers and shorebirds arrive here as the destination lacks large water bodies.
A raptor popular in North India the grey-headed fish eagle has a bizarre call that somewhat resembles a human cry. It has become a resident at Kanha and probably breeds here as well. Among the Northern, Taxa Kanha is visited by Palas Fish Eagle, Grey Bush Chat, Bar Winged Flycatcher Shrike, Siberian Ruby Throat, Whistlers Warbler, Ultramarine Flycatcher, Tickell' and Humes Warbler, and many more...
Gray-Headed Fish Eagle
(Haliaeetus ichthyaetus)
In dense forest canopy, the species have to be identified by the calls especially if you are on a jeep safari. Regular bird watching in open jeep acclimatizes you to various sounds and calls of creatures living in this amazing tiger reserve in Central India.
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