the exhaustive vocabulary of our feathered friends replete with those onomatopoeic cheeps chirps trills and tweets can be overwhelming even for an experienced ornithologist or birdwatcher be it in the scrubland marshland wetlands or the jungle assigning a particular call to a particular bird in the cacophony raised by the different species is a daunting taskarmed with his handheld recorders and microphones hrishikesh dani tries to make sense of the chaos the first thing one needs is loads of patience recording speciesspecific sounds can be tricky because one never knows when the bird will let out an interesting call i try to get up close to the bird without disturbing it along with recording the birds calls i also try to get a wider soundscape by incorporating the sounds of the foliage like the rustling of the leaves and grass he explainsa postgraduate in sound design from the university of edinburgh danis wildlife sounds have famously been used in jungle book 2016 his classmate at the university who went on to work with skywalker studio knew of his work as a field recordist and asked for part of his collection of sounds dani gave the studio around 65 animal and bird sounds which were mixed brilliantly to create a lively and authentic sonic environment in the films dolby atmos soundtrackright from the dawn chorus when the avians together greet first light with their vocals dani has been able to capture sounds like the boom of the bittern the piping of the sandpiper the shriek of the eagle the hoot of the owl and the chant of the goshawk presently he and fellow naturelover abhiram rajandekar have been recording bird and animal sounds for indias first wildlife podcasts created by ornithologist satish pande right here in pune the podcasts 35 minute capsules loaded with nuggets of information and sounds will be put up on the internet and on itunes this week itselfthe 15 podcasts generated so far have all been shot in maharashtra an interesting episode is on the hunting principles of the pardhi community members in fact says pande modern wildlife principles have been based on those that the pardhis adopted such as not hunting during the breeding seasonthe aggressive but intelligent drongo is the subject of another podcast unappealing in looks the kotwal policeman as it is called in marathi plays the role of protector to smaller birds by guarding their nests however it is not uncommon for the drongo to occasionally eat the chicks of these smaller birds too the drongo is a known mischiefmaker even getting elephants to stray off their trails by imitating the specific whistle calls given by their mahouts when under threat from a raptor bird of prey the drongo emits the sound of a bigger raptor to ward off the potential attackertwo podcasts have been devoted to bird migration with commentary by israeli professor reuven yosef who has ringed more than 5 million birds then there are trilogies on the bonellis