• AUDIO: Brown Rock Chat, Cercomela fusca: Song
  • [Contributed by Arunachal Pradesh Regional Centre, Itanagar]
  • Brown Rock Chat Cercomela fusca is an endemic, resident, fairly common song bird, distributed mainly in central portion of the Indian sub-continent. It is mainly an insectivorous bird. Individuals use different types of calls for communication. These are mostly territory advertisement calls, alarm calls and begging calls.
  • AUDIO: Brown Rock Chat, Cercomela fusca: Call (Blyth, 1851)
  • [Contributed by Arunachal Pradesh Regional Centre, Itanagar]
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  • AUDIO: Raorchestes glandulosus (Jerdon, 1854) Beautiful Bush Frog
  • [Contributed by Western Ghat Regional Centre, Calicut]
  • Raorchestes bombayensis is small sized bush frog (SVL reaching up to 24.9 mm) with a stout body. Its dorsum is brownish and groin and lateral sides prominently marbled with creamy white blotches in a brown background. Advertisement calls are heard in monsoon in the dusk in the bushes of about five to ten feet height. The species is known only from Maharashtra, Goa and north Karnataka and is endemic to Western Ghats.
  • AUDIO: : Maharashtra Bush Frog, Raorchestes bombayensis (Annandale, 1919)
  • [Contributed by Western Ghat Regional Centre, Kozhikode (Calicut)]
  • Raorchestes glandulosus is a medium sized (SVL reaching up to 27.0 mm) beautiful bush frog, green coloured dorsally and metallic yellow ventrally. Its skin is glandular. This species is endemic to Western Ghats and found only in a few forests and plantation patches of Wayanad (Kerala), Coorg and Chikkamagaluru (Karnataka). Advertisement calls are heard during monsoon, after dark. They usually perch on trees and shrubs (above three to four meters from the ground level). Call is loud and can be heard from a short distance.
  • AUDIO: Amboli bush frog, Pseudophilautus amboli (Biju and Bossuyt)
  • [Contributed by Western Ghat Regional Centre, Kozhikode (Calicut)]
  • Pseudophilautus amboli is a medium-sized frog (SVL up to 33.4 mm) with a robust body. It is a common species of bush frog found in Amboli, Goa and Jog falls regions of the Western Ghats. Males start advertising calls at dusk during monsoon.
  • AUDIO: : The Ornate Narrow-mouthed Frog, Microhyla ornata(Dumeril & Bibron)
  • [Contributed by Western Ghat Regional Centre, Kozhikode (Calicut)]
  • Microhyla ornata is a small, slender common frog, found in the grass lands and forest floors of Western Ghats and is well distributed across the Asian countries. Dorsum of the frog has a characteristic bright pink or brown marking. In males, the throat is black during the breeding season. Calls can be heard just after the showers during the monsoon.
  • AUDIO: : Mangrove Whistler, Pachycephala grisola
  • [Contributed by Dr.Kaushik Deuti, Asst. Zoologist, ZSI-Headquarters, Kolkata]
  • The Mangrove Whistler (Pachycephala grisola) is a small (17 cm long), drab coloured bird with a thick black bill, grey-brown head, olive-brown back, rump and tail; grayish-white throat and breast merging into a silvery white belly. It is solitary (except during the breeding season), foraging in mangrove trees. It constructs a frail cup-shaped nest between April-July, on small trees. Resident, found only in the Sunderbans of West Bengal and Bangladesh, Bhitarkanika area of Orissa and in the mangroves of Andaman Islands. It is rarely seen but has a sweet whistle-like call.
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