Bird Song ID. Help needed! Srinagar, Kashmir. (1 Viewer)

[Sayib Khaliq]

Location : Srinagar , Kashmir, J&k , India
Date : 9th April 2021

Hello everyone!

This song was heard during a walk to a hill in the Srinagar city.It was coming from some bushes, but unfortunately I could not locate the bird ,but I did record this sound clip of its song. Any help regarding it's ID would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
View attachment bird id_1.mp3

 

[Butty]

Sunbird maybe, if so most likely purple sunbird?

 

[Sayib Khaliq]

Sunbird maybe, if so most likely purple sunbird?

Thanks a lot for answering.However, Purple sunbird or any other sunbird is not known to occur in the Kashmir valley proper.It occurs in Jammu region and the adjacent hills, but as far as Kashmir valley is concerned, it has never been recorded as far as I am aware. It would be quite an extra ordinary sighting in the Kashmir valley.
Could it be the dark sided flycatcher?
Thanks !

 

[Butty]

Could it be the dark sided flycatcher?

Not implausible. (To me. IMHO. Etc etc.)

Dark-sided Flycatcher (Muscicapa sibirica) :: xeno-canto

www.xeno-canto.org

 

[Sayib Khaliq]

Not implausible. (To me. IMHO. Etc etc.)

Dark-sided Flycatcher (Muscicapa sibirica) :: xeno-canto

www.xeno-canto.org

Thank you.

 

[sbiswas.geo]

Location : Srinagar , Kashmir, J&k , India
Date : 9th April 2021

Hello everyone!

This song was heard during a walk to a hill in the Srinagar city.It was coming from some bushes, but unfortunately I could not locate the bird ,but I did record this sound clip of its song. Any help regarding it's ID would be appreciated. Thanks in advance!
View attachment 1378761

Can you post this in eBird or Xeno-canto and get a sonogram? It is much more helpful than just listening to audio. Does not sound as shrill as a Dark-sided but I should really look at the sonogram before I discount it.

 

[Sayib Khaliq]

Can you post this in eBird or Xeno-canto and get a sonogram? It is much more helpful than just listening to audio. Does not sound as shrill as a Dark-sided but I should really look at the sonogram before I discount it.

Thank you for answering. Posting it in eBird would require it to be identified fully ? I am not confident enough to put it down as a dark sided flycatcher, and so have not recorded this observation. As to xeno canto , I am not familiar with the uploading process there.Could a recording be uploaded on xeno which has not been identified fully yet ?
Thanks again!
Edit : just found that it could be put down in mystery recording on xeno!

 

[Sayib Khaliq]

Can you post this in eBird or Xeno-canto and get a sonogram? It is much more helpful than just listening to audio. Does not sound as shrill as a Dark-sided but I should really look at the sonogram before I discount it.

I have just posted it on xeno canto. Here is the link

XC655357 Identity unknown

Recording unmodified, no filter used. Bird not seen . Voice coming from dense bushes bordering an open slope. Species: Dark sided flycather?

www.xeno-canto.org

 

[sbiswas.geo]

Thank you for answering. Posting it in eBird would require it to be identified fully ? I am not confident enough to put it down as a dark sided flycatcher, and so have not recorded this observation. As to xeno canto , I am not familiar with the uploading process there.Could a recording be uploaded on xeno which has not been identified fully yet ?
Thanks again!
Edit : just found that it could be put down in mystery recording on xeno!

Yes, mystery recording is the place to go in Xeno. For eBird, you may upload the recording under "bird sp".

 

[sbiswas.geo]

Checked your upload in XC. It is a short and faint recording, so I am not sure if we can conclude an ID here, but from what I am hearing it sounds much like a Bunting's feeding call. And you have mentioned in XC that it was coming from inside a bush. That would be totally unusual for a Dark-sided Flycatcher. They perch high. Among the 138 species of birds reported from Shankaracharya Hill, a bird feeding inside a bush would more likely be a tit, finch or bunting. Check out this Chestnut-eared Bunting's call.

ML281335 - Chestnut-eared Bunting - Macaulay Library

Macaulay Library ML281335; © Peter Boesman; Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan

macaulaylibrary.org

 

[Sayib Khaliq]

Checked your upload in XC. It is a short and faint recording, so I am not sure if we can conclude an ID here, but from what I am hearing it sounds much like a Bunting's feeding call. And you have mentioned in XC that it was coming from inside a bush. That would be totally unusual for a Dark-sided Flycatcher. They perch high. Among the 138 species of birds reported from Shankaracharya Hill, a bird feeding inside a bush would more likely be a tit, finch or bunting. Check out this Chestnut-eared Bunting's call.

ML281335 - Chestnut-eared Bunting - Macaulay Library

Macaulay Library ML281335; © Peter Boesman; Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan

macaulaylibrary.org

Thank you so much! I totally agree with your observations regarding the habitat, because I had no direct evidence of the dark sided flycatcher's presence on that particular hill.Indeed a bunting would be more likely in that area , and this recording shared by you makes me convinced that it is a chestnut eared bunting. Thank you for this big help.

 

[Chris73]