Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Koyal is not the same as Quail

This crazy bird is one of the loudest and most prominent calls one hears around here. I finally asked Deepal what makes the sound and he tried to tell me it was a quail.. high up in the tree.. Hmm...

Turns out he was trying to translate the name Koyal  or Koel (I've seen it both ways) to an English name, and it seemed like it should be Quail. But no, it's name is just Koyal. And it's really loud and high. You can see and hear it here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoOMlG1Vd_E



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