This Forest Village Near Jim Corbett Wakes To A Chorus Of Birds Every Morning

As the first rays of the sun hit the thick Sal canopy, the forest erupts. It is a frenzied feeding exercise, a dance from branch to branch. Flocks of Long-tailed and Rosy Minivets, Yuhinias, the striking Blue-winged Minlas and Silver-eared Mesia, Ashy and Black Bulbuls, accompanied by an assortment of babblers and warblers, flit alongside the rhythmic tapping of Grey-headed, Yellow-naped and Fulvous-breasted Woodpeckers and the Chestnut-bellied and Velvet-fronted Nuthatches. Add to this the raucous Red-billed Blue Magpies, Grey Treepies and the brilliant Green Magpie, adding their voices to the morning choir. Recent surveys by naturalists, locals and visitors have notched up 375 bird species, over 200 species of moths from the tropical evergreen and moist deciduous forests of Rathuadhab, and it is likely that the actual diversity is many times higher.