Dawn, in a tropical forest, light wooded tree groves in farming locales and even our urban gardens with avenue trees, is really a sight to see. This sight, however beautiful and mystical, is incomplete without the high resonating familiar Kutrooo... Kutrooo... Kutrooo.. call of the Green Bird, about the size of a Myna — the ‘White-Cheeked Barbet - Megalaima viridis’ of the Megalaimidae family of birds as it is called in Ornithology.
There are in all 11 species in this family inhabiting the country, the largest and most colourful of them The Great Barbet and the smallest of them all The Copper-smith Barbet. This Green Bird, with a brownish head and white cheeks, is often heard than sighted. It has a high-pitched, resonating call, which is very familiar to many early morning joggers and walkers. The repeated call of these birds are perhaps the most highly recorded of all bird calls, in any movie or slide show, whether in a setting of urban garden or a wild life picturing in the Rain Forests. the call recording of these birds are indispensable. The visuals are incomplete without the call suggesting a break of dawn. The forest feel is through these birds’ call.
