26th Feb, 2012 at Piyali Island Village Resort
A cute little Coppersmith Barbet has taken shelter in our neighbourhood. I have been hearing its characteristic calls for quite a few weeks. I had even tried to record it unsuccessfully a few days ago. On that occasion I hadn't used the microphone and there was a lot of ambient noise disturbance as well.
Got successful today. The microphone adds a distinct hum to the recording. In the same recording I also got a common tailorbird. But posted that as a separate file on xeno-canto. I recorded in the highest possible resolution.
This particular barbet's call is interesting because the bird gets its English name from its call.
Click here to listen to the recording on xeno-canto.
