The Lineated Barbet (Megalaima lineata) is a large barbet found in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent, along the southern foothills of the Himalayas and also in parts of Bangladesh and West Bengal. Like other barbets it is a frugivore. In nests inside holes bored into tree trunks.
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Recorded with my mobile phone as I had forgotten my ZOOM Handy Recorder at home.
Anyone known what bird it is?
Thanks to Bram Piot for help with the ID
I saw the bird at the temple and I also got a few pictures. Don't know if it was the same bird, but the recording is from the other side of the road, next to the school.
Sighted: (Date of first photo that I could use)
14th of March 2016 Location: Wat Chaloem Phra Kiat, Bangkok
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And my new aid, maybe, and I say maybe the best aid. I brought my mobile phone as my SIM card have stopped working and I tried to get it to work again so I can use the internet. Thus I had my phone in my pocket on my first game drive in Jim Corbett National Park.
We saw a bird and I asked my Guide and the driver if they had a pen and a paper as I had forgot my pen and paper in my room. I remembered my LG phone and I recorded the name. And thus I will always bring my phone. Writing the name in the car and I have found more than once that it can be hard to read what I had wrote when I'm back in my room.
So now I always have my mobile in my pocket and it has been a great help. And from November 2018 I use eBird. Bird watching in U.A.E and Oman and my guide in Dubai recommended eBird and I have used the app since then and I note every bird I can identify in my eBird app.
Lineated barbet / นกโพระดกธรรมดา 14 March 2016 - Wat Chaloem Phra Kiat, Bangkok
Lineated barbet / นกโพระดกธรรมดา 14 March 2016 - Wat Chaloem Phra Kiat, Bangkok
Lineated barbet / นกโพระดกธรรมดา 23 January 2023 - Wat Wang Krachae, Kanchanaburi
Lineated barbet / นกโพระดกธรรมดา 23 January 2023 - Wat Wang Krachae, Kanchanaburi
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