Bird Noises

So I am not only enjoying myself on this trip but also learning some important skills. I can now differentiate between the noises of a howler monkey and a spider monkey (fun fact, howler monkeys howl and spider monkeys sound mostly like breaking branches that they are trying to throw at you). I also learned that the best way to find monkeys is to smell for their poop (which Shaan stuck his hand in by accident).

Birds are another area of budding knowledge. We are mostly familiar with the Screaming Piha which until we saw written down thought was the howling peehawk and the screeching peacock. Again, a few communication barriers. We mostly only heard the screaming piha and what we called "noisy bird" which has a much longer more descriptive name.

The field station was under construction so we heard most often the birds we named "steel-tipped drill bird" and "hammer hard bird". And we woke up every morning to "alarm clock bird" which was actually a bird, and not just our alarm clock-- and was nesting in the thatched roof of our cabin and liked to sing at 6 a.m.