White Rumped Shama singing it's beautiful song from Nilgiris of India

White rumped shama singing it's song

One of the reasons we moved from pictures to videos was that of sound. While still images captured the bird in vivid details the moving images showed a lot more about their behavior. One of the beat aspects that came out of recording video was that of their sound. While we have heard recordings of bird calls separately, seeing them and hearing them at the same time was a special experience.

The expressions of the bird that came all along with the call was a refreshing visual. They often performed small dances with their calls and it was quite entertaining.

With this new found visual aspect we started recording all the bird calls we could find.

After going after the common and not so common birds for the sounds , one bird that was still missing was the White Rumped Shama. As a bird of dense forested areas,  finding shama was in itself a tough task. As we had set our hopes on recording their song the searches were turning out to be futile for a while. 

One fine day though it finally happened. 

Just to escape the lockdown for Corona we planned a short trip to an edge of a forest area. To our delight wee found a pair of White rumped shama building a nest. After observing them for a while , the song finally came.

It is sad that such a beautiful bird is caged in some countries for their song. It is a very unfair world !