The sound follows your clock. Dawn runs from 5 to 9 in the morning, day from 9 to 4, dusk from 4 to 7 and night from 7 until 5. Under the calls lies a long field recording of a garden or a forest, looped so you never hear the seam.
The paintings were made for this site after the Company School: the natural-history pictures that Indian painters made in Patna, Lucknow and Calcutta around 1770 to 1820, above all Shaikh Zain al-Din’s birds for the Impey album. They are new pictures in that manner, not the originals.
The birds.
Asian Koel
Eudynamys scolopaceusSings at dawn · day · dusk · night
- Abhinav Thakur, iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0
Black Francolin
Francolinus francolinusPainted, not yet heard
Black-and-orange Flycatcher
Ficedula nigrorufaSings at dawn · dusk
- Navaneeth Sini George, iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0
Collared Owlet
Taenioptynx brodieiPainted, not yet heard
Common Babbler
Argya caudataPainted, not yet heard
Common Iora
Aegithina tiphiaSings at dawn · day
- Gypsypkd, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Seema Merchant, iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0
Coppersmith Barbet
Psilopogon haemacephalusSings at dawn · day
- PJeganathan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0
Eastern Barn Owl
Tyto javanicaPainted, not yet heard
Eurasian Hobby
Falco subbuteoPainted, not yet heard
Flame-throated Bulbul
Rubigula gularisPainted, not yet heard
Greater Racket-tailed Drongo
Dicrurus paradiseusSings at dawn · day
- Seema Merchant, iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusSings at dawn · day
- Gypsypkd, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- P Jeganathan, iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0
Indian Scimitar Babbler
Pomatorhinus horsfieldiiSings at dawn · day
- L. Shyamal, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 2.5
Malabar Whistling Thrush
Myophonus horsfieldiiSings at dawn · dusk
- Seema Merchant, iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0
Mottled Wood-Owl
Strix ocellataPainted, not yet heard
Mountain Scops-Owl
Otus spilocephalusPainted, not yet heard
Red Spurfowl
Galloperdix spadiceaSings at dawn · day · dusk
- Navaneeth Sini George, iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0
Red-vented Bulbul
Pycnonotus caferSings at dawn · day · dusk
- psubhashish, iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0
- Gypsypkd, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Stork-billed Kingfisher
Pelargopsis capensisPainted, not yet heard
White-bellied Treepie
Dendrocitta leucogastraSings at dawn · dusk
- Seema Merchant, iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0
White-browed Wagtail
Motacilla maderaspatensisSings at dawn · day
- Sri Harsha K.M, iNaturalist · CC0 1.0
Yellow-browed Bulbul
Acritillas indicaPainted, not yet heard
Zitting Cisticola
Cisticola juncidisPainted, not yet heard
Under the calls.
- Dawn chorus, Himalayan foothillsDawn Chorus From Himalayan Foothills, Calcuttan, Freesound · CC BY 4.0. Excerpted, filtered, made into a seamless loop with a crossfade, loudness-normalised and re-encoded (Opus and MP3).
- Dawn chorus, Western GhatsDawn Chorus in Western Ghat Jungles, Calcuttan, Freesound · CC BY 4.0. Excerpted, filtered, made into a seamless loop with a crossfade, loudness-normalised and re-encoded (Opus and MP3).
- Morning birds, IISc Bangalorebirds-IISc-Bangalore-2.wav, xserra, Freesound · CC BY 4.0. Excerpted, filtered, made into a seamless loop with a crossfade, loudness-normalised and re-encoded (Opus and MP3).
- Tropical orchard, West BengalTropical Orchard in Spring, Calcuttan, Freesound · CC BY 4.0. Excerpted, filtered, made into a seamless loop with a crossfade, loudness-normalised and re-encoded (Opus and MP3).
- Forest path, Tamil NaduTamil Nadu forest birds, Mk170101, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 4.0. Excerpted, filtered, made into a seamless loop with a crossfade, loudness-normalised and re-encoded (Opus and MP3).
- Night insects (behind an Indian Scops-Owl recording), KeralaIndian Scops-Owl, Navaneeth Sini George, iNaturalist · CC BY 4.0. Excerpted, filtered, made into a seamless loop with a crossfade, loudness-normalised and re-encoded (Opus and MP3).
Recordings are CC0, public domain or CC BY. They were excerpted, filtered and evened out in loudness for this site; each credit links to the original.