Bird Sounds of Madagascar: An Audio Guide to the Island's Unique Birds [Audiobook] [Audio CD]

Shut your eyes and you could well be on the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, listening to the chatter of a long-billed tertraka, the whistle of Van Damm's vanga or the evening chorus of a crested coua. --Cage Aviary Birds

This CD of bird songs and calls is the essential audio guide for anyone interested in the unique bird life of Madagascar, and it includes many rare recordings, most of them previously unpublished. Madagascar is famed for its unique wildlife, with many species of plant and animals found nowhere else. All of the recordings have been taken from the extensive wildlife collections in the British Library Sound Archive. Includes an introductory booklet. Track listing 1. Madagascar Little Grebe Madagascar Crested Ibis 2. Madagascar Serpent-Eagle Madagascar Harrier-Hawk 3. Henst's Goshawk Frances's Sparrowhawk 4. Madagascar Buzzard 5. Madagascar Kestrel Banded Kestrel 6. Harlequin Quail 7. White-breasted Mesite 8. Brown Mesite Mesite 9. Subdesert Mesite 10. Madagascar Buttonquail 11. Madagascar Flufftail 12. Slender-billed Flufftail 13. Madagascar Wood Rail 14. Madagascar Rail 15. White-throated Rail 16. Sakalava Rail 17. Greater Painted-snipe Madagascar Pratincole 18. Madagascar Snipe 19. Madagascar Sandgrouse 20. Madagascar Turtle Dove Namaqua Dove Madagascar Green Pigeon 21. Greater Vasa Parrot Lesser Vasa Parrot 22. Grey-headed Lovebird 23. Thick-billed Cuckoo Madagascar Lesser Cuckoo 24. Giant Coua 25. Coquerel's Coua 26. Red-breasted Coua 27. Red-fronted Coua 28. Running Coua 29. Red-capped Coua 30. Crested Coua 31. Verreaux's Coua Blue Coua 32. Madagascar Coucal 33. Madagascar Red Owl 34. Rainforest Scops Owl 35. Torotoroka Scops Owl 36. White-browed Owl Madagascar Long-eared Owl 37. Madagascar Nightjar 38. Madagascar Spinetail Madagascar Pygmy Kingfisher 39. Broad-billed Roller 40. Short-legged Ground-Roller 41. Scaly Ground-Roller 42. Pitta-like Ground-Roller Rufous-headed Ground-Roller 43. Long-tailed Ground-Roller 44. Cuckoo-Roller 45. Madagascar Hoopoe 46. Velvet Asity Schelegel's Asity 47. Common Sunbird-Asity Yellow-bellied Sunbird-Asity 48. Madagascar Bush Lark 49. Mascarene Martin Brown-throated Sand Martin 50. Madagascar Wagtail 51. Ashy Cuckoo-Shrike 52. Madagascar Bulbul 53. Long-billed Tetraka 54. Speckled Tetraka 55. Appert's Tetraka 56. Grey-crowned Tetraka 57. Dusky Tetraka 58. Amber Mountain Rock Thrush 59. Littoral Rock Thrush Rock Thrush sp. 60. Forest Rock Thrush 61. Benson's Rock Thrush 62. Madagascar Magpie-Robin 63. Brown Emutail 64. Grey Emutail 65. Madagascar Brush Warbler 66. Lantz's Brush Warbler 67. Madagascar Swamp-Warbler Thamnornis Warbler 68. Rand's Warbler 69. Common Newtonia 70. Dark Newtronia 71. Archibold's Newtonia 72. Red-tailed Newtonia 73. Madagascar Cisticola 74. Common Jery 75. Green Jerry 76. Stripe-throated Jery 77. Wedge-tailed Jery 78. Cryptic Warbler 79. Ward's Flycatcher Madagascar Paradise Flycatcher 80. White-throated Oxylabes 81. Yellow-browed Oxylabes 82. Crossley's babbler 83. Soumanga Sunbird Long-billed Green Sunbird 84. Madagascar White-Eye 85. Red-tailed Vanga 86. Red-shouldered Vanga 87. Rufous Vanga 88. Hook billed Vanga 89. Lafresnaye's Vanga 89. Lafresnaye's Vanga 90. Van Dam's Vanga Pollen's Vanga 91. Sickle-billed Vanga 92. White-headed Vanga Chabert's Vanga 93. Blue Vanga Bernier's Vanga 94. Helmet Vanga Nuthatch Vanga 95. Tylas Vanga 96. Crested Drongo 97. Madagascar Starling 98. Nelicourvi Weaver sakalava Weaver 99. Madagascar Red Fody Madagascar Mannikin