Similar whistle phone11/2/2022 ![]() ![]() In the parking lot, Sewell looked around nervously. He was born with one eye slightly crossed, and it still drifted when he was tired or feeling stressed strangers sometimes found it disconcerting, but his quick wit and easy sense of humor usually dispelled any tension. Sewell, a physician, was thirty-four years old, six feet four inches tall, and broad-shouldered, with an earnest smile and barely perceptible dimples. ![]() Then he continued on until he reached a drab stretch of road lined with gas stations and scraggly palm trees, where he pulled into a parking lot and waited, as discreetly as possible, to meet his F.B.I. He drove to Sonny’s BBQ, a restaurant nearby, where he picked up barbecue sauce for the sandwich he had brought for lunch. On the morning of September 17, 2009, Darren Sewell left his office at Freedom Health, the Tampa health-insurance company where he was a vice-president, and climbed into his Chevy Tahoe. SIMILAR WHISTLE PHONE SERIESLet us strive to reduce our destructive actions, so that the hills, valleys, rivers and forests continue to reverberate with the musical notes of the Malabar Whistling Thrush.Ĭonservation and Nature is a series brought to you by Kalpavriksh Environmental Action Group (content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. But with growing human habitation, disappearing forests, drying or damming up of water bodies, emptying of pollutants in lakes and rivers, and activities like sand mining from river banks, there is a steady decline in their habitat. The IUCN is an organisation best known for assessing conservation status of species across the world. Found mainly in the hills of the West and peninsular India, this is one of the whistling thrushes found in India.įortunately, the Malabar Whistling Thrush is still in the ‘least concern’ category of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), which means their population is still healthy. It is mostly found near streams and it makes cup-shaped nest of moss and grass on rocks and ledges, behind waterfalls and running water. And as I had suspected, it is only the male who sings those beautiful songs. Other than singing melodious songs at day break, it also has shorter calls throughout the day. And guess what it is commonly known as? The whistling schoolboy. I learnt that it was the Malabar Whistling Thrush that I had seen. On returning home, I decided to find out more about this bird. I sat watching it for a while, fascinated by both its calls and the lovely colour of its wings. It dipped its head in the water and to my surprise, held a tiny crab in its beak, which it devoured in no time. Then it flew a small distance and perched on a stone in a shallow part of the stream. It hopped about digging something from the grass, turning over leaves, picking out insects and small berries fallen from surrounding shrubs. I pulled out my phone and took a small clip of this sprightly bird. I couldn’t believe my ears as the sound was so human-like. Now I knew who was whistling that lovely tune all this while. As I watched,the bird was looking for something in the grass. The blue was captured by the sun’s rays and it glinted beautifully in the light. ![]() Now, I could clearly see a bird, slightly smaller than a crow, with a black head, black bill and bright blue on its wings and forehead. And suddenly I saw a flash of blue as something hopped there. ![]() I couldn’t resist sitting down under a fig tree on the bank of the stream, its roots partly submerged in the water and the branches hanging overhead.Īs I scanned the surrounding area taking in the silence, a movement across the stream caught my eye. The forest path soon widened and on my right, I came across a gently flowing stream. I went ahead with my walk, and after a while I heard the whistling closer to me. Should I turn back? Was it an eve-teaser lurking in the bushes somewhere? Or could it be just one of the kids, whistling innocuously while making his way to school? Who could be whistling on this narrow forest path, flanked by thick vegetation, so early in the morning? I was on a holiday in Panchgani, and I ventured out to explore the area nearby.Īs soon as I made up my mind to ignore the whistle and took a couple of steps, there went the whistle again! Now, I was worried. It was a lovely, melodious song-like whistle coming from a distance. ![]()
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