Indian Bird Videos

After making a video about Sirkeer Malkoha , our next target was the Yellow eyed Babbler. Though not elusive as the Sirkeer this bird had a different problem. This species also prefers the bush but is very active to say the least. They hardly ever sit in one place. They shuffle around in the mid area of the dense bushes and jump to another bush from there. We could spot them but we could not one decent clip of the bird. Once in a while they come to the top of the bush and call out , only to get back into the bushes. After spotting them in couple of locations , we had to make several visits to make this video  possible. Everytime there was less than 30-40 seconds of footage. we stitched them together to make this video. We had a bonus for our effort though. Inbetween all the chasing,  we got the call of the bird as well because it was the breeding season.

Hornbills are for us the symbols of Indian forests. There are nine species of hornbills that can be found in India. one has to travel from southern most part of India to the eastern most part of India to see all of them. If that is not hard enough , take the case of the Narcondam hornbill, which is found only in one remote island about 1500 kms away from the mainland. When we decided to this video we had already seen all the Hornbills except for the Narcondam Hornbill. For seeing the Narcondm one needs special permission from the government. The permit is hardly issued and only for researchers it is given. Hornbills in India are facing a tough future like all the wildlife in India. Being  large birds requiring old growth forests they are facing habitat loss in a big way. So we covered certain conservation issues about the hornbill as well.