Cloud's End

Himalayan Morning

A recording made about an hour after dawn, at 2000m at Cloud’s End in the Garhwal Himalayas of Uttarakhand. This recording won the Silver Fox award for best overall recording in the competition of the Wildlife Sound Recording Society (www.wildlife-sound.org).

The repeated stridulant call is a Blue-Throated Barbet (Megalaima asiatica) and the beautiful musical fluting a Maroon Oriole (Oriolus traillii). Amongst the other species that can be heard are Great Barbet (Megalaima virens), Rufous-bellied Woodpecker (Dendrocopos hyperythrus), Red-billed Blue Magpie (Urocissa erythrorhyncha), and more. You can hear more of these and other species here:

Maroon Oriole

Blue-throated Barbet

Red-billed Blue Magpie