This CD is an intorduction to the bird song of 59 species, calls of 6 lemurs plus flying fox and leaf-litter frog. At the end of the CD is an ambient track of early morning in the Berenty Reserve.

Details of the area where the recordings were made are also included.

CD species list

Birds

Red-tailed Tropicbird (Phaeton rubricauda)
Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea)
White-faced Whistling Duck (Dendrocygna viduata)
Madagascar Harrier-Hawk (Polyboroides radiatus)
Yellow-billed Kite (Milvus aegyptius)
Madagascar Kestrel (Falco newtoni)
Helmeted Guineafowl (Numida meleagris)
White-throated Rail ( Dryolimnas cuviere)
Madagascar Flufftail (Sarothrura insularis)
Madagascar Sandgrouse (Pterocles personatus)
Namaqua Dove (Oena capensis)
Madagascar Turtle Dove (Streptopelia picturata)
Grey-headed Lovebird (Agapornis cana)
Lesser Vaza Parrot (Coracopsis nigra)
Madagascar Coucal (Centropus toulou)
Madagascar Lesser Cuckoo (Cuculus rochii)
Coquerel's Coua (Coua coquereli)
Blue Coua (Coua caerulea)
Crested Coua (Coua cristata)
Madagascar Long-eared Owl (Asio madagascariensis)
White-browed Owl (Ninox superciliaris)
Western Madagascar Scops Owl (Otus madagascariensis)
Eastern Madagascar Scops Owl (Otus rutilus)
Madagascar Nightjar (Caprimulgus madagscariensis)
Madagascar Bee-eater (Merops superciliosus)
Madagascar Cuckoo-Roller (Leptosomus discolor)
Pitta-like Ground-Roller (Atelornis pittoides)
Schegel's Asity (Philepitta schlegeli)
Madagascar Bulbul (Hypsipetes madagascariensis)
Long-billed Greenbul (Bernieria madagascariensis)
Madagascar Magpie Robin (Copsychus albospecularis)
Madagascar Hoopoe (Upupa marginata)
Littoral Rock-Thrush (Monticola imerinus)
Common Stonechat (Saxicola torquata)

Madagascar Wagtail (Motacilla flaviventris)
Madagascar Paradise Flycatcher (Terpsiphone mutata)
Common Newtonia (Newtonia brunneicauda)
Madagascar Lark (Mirafra hova)
Madagascar Swamp Warbler (Acrocephalus newtoni)
Madagascar Brush Warbler (Nesillas typica)
Subdesert Brush Warbler (Nesillas lantzii)
Common Jery (Neomixis tenella)
Striped-throated Jery (Neomixis striatigula)
Green Jery (Neomixis Viridis)
Madagascar White-eye (Zosterops maderaspatanus)
Madagascar Green Sunbird (Nectarinia notata)
Souimanga Sunbird (Nectarinia souimanga)
White-headed Vanga (Leptopterus viridis)
Sickle-billed Vanga (Falculea palliata)
Rufous Vanga (Schetba rufa)
Red-tailed Vanga (Calicalicus madagascariensis)
Hook-billed Vanga (Vanga curvirostris)
Van Dam's Vanga (Xenopirostris damii)
Tylas Vanga (Tylas eduardi)
Madagascar Cuckoo Shrike (Coracina cinerea)
Common Mynah (Acridotheres tristis)
Crested Drongo (Dicrurus forficatus)
Pied Crow (Corvus albus)
Sakalava Weaver (Ploceus sakalava)