ML648884495
Contributor
Andrew Spencer Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Great Nicobar East-West Road — below the forest checkpost
Nicobar, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age and sex
- Unknown age, Unknown sex - X
- Sounds
- Call
- Playback
- Playback not used
Media notes
Calls from a small group of birds foraging high in a tall tree in primary forest.
Observation details
Very distinctive birds, with much more black on the lores, a longer bill, and larger eye-ring than those from the mainland, or even islands further north in the Andaman and Nicobar chain. Vocalizations also distinct, thinner sounding and closer to the calls of Ornate Sunbird. Much shyer and less obtrusive than Indian White-eyes, tending to stick higher and more hidden in the foliage, calling less and thus being more easily overlooked. Clearly a different species, and apparently undescribed as the type nicobaricus is from Car Nicobar, which phenotypically looks to cluster with birds on the Andaman Islands and not with the ones from Great Nicobar.
Technical information
- Recorder
- Zoom F3
- Microphone
- Wildtronics Pro Mono
- Accessories
- Wildtronics 22" parabola
- Original file size
- 14.82 MB