Brief Ornithology of Blue-throated Barbet (Psilopogon asiaticus)

Last year in India lockdown started on 23rd March, 2020 due to pandemic situation of COVID-19 for the outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 at first for 18 days and then extended for phase by phase with the imposition of strong restrictions for movement. During that time lockdown was already there in several countries of the World. So, all the people of Global village faced the situation like house arrest. All the social, official, commercial and institutional activities were prohibited for the people. Apart from the household work most of the people got themselves busy in the unproductive work like watching TV and using mobile phone. For morning and evening work we were compelled to use only the lawn and backyard premises of the household. During our walk we have interacted with 35 species of birds. We became fond of Blue-throated Barbets (Psilopogon asiaticus) during our walk and documented the roosting, nesting, foraging behaviour of the Blue-throated Barbets. We have found great camouflage adaptation of Blue-throated Barbets and several times only bird call/song helped us to sight the bird. We have recorded bird calls/songs and all the data related to sighting and audio were submitted to ebird platform. Spectrograms of audios were analyzed to decipher the bird call/song. Lockdown helped us to explore fundamental lessons of ornithology.