Sandy, Bedfordshire: The peacocks here, like their wild Indian ancestors, roost overnight in treesA voice out of India beckoned from somewhere close to the foot of the wooded hills, a good half a mile away. That sustained, summoning shriek sounded like the shout-out of a child who has discovered that they are in a place with an echo. And, having felt the power of its reverberating, far-reaching properties, they try to repeat it over and over. In their excitement, each high-pitched yell becomes a slight variation on the original "eee-ow".The first time I heard this sound this early in the morning, I was approaching on the back of an elephant. A tiger safari at dawn in the forested foothills of the Himalayas taught me that peacocks roost overnight in trees, for they cried loud and long above the elephant's ears. Continue reading...
Country diary: a shrieking cry summons me back to the Himalayas
5. června 2020 10:15
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Zdroj: The Guardian