Chennai resident’s audio recording of curlew sandpiper’s call is the first for the species to come up on eBird from India
The Hindu
Subramanian Sankar who sees himself as a lifelong student of bird calls, recently resolved what has been a head-scratcher of a question for chirrup-loving citizen birders in India. It is about having
Subramanian Sankar who sees himself as a lifelong student of bird calls, recently resolved what has been a head-scratcher of a question for chirrup-loving citizen birders in India. It is about having the curlew sandpiper “authentically” on record.
Recording a curlew sandpiper’s call that is entirely a curlew sandpiper’s has been a challenge, one acknowledged by Salim Ali. Handbook of the Birds of India and Pakistan (Vol. II) by Salim Ali and Sidney Dillon Ripley carries a telling remark: “Not authentically recorded in India, the fact of its keeping in mixed flocks making it difficult to isolate the calls of the various species.”
Recently, the eBird platform got off the mark in terms of having a validated curlew sandpiper call recording from India.