Good people of Reddit,
A red vented bulbul bird (pynonotus cafer) has been living with us for the past two and a half years, since May 2017. Her name is Piddu (meaning "Little One").
She was around 15 days old when she fell from her nest and was injured in the wing by dogs, which was eventually healed.
Her diet consists on pellets, fruits, nuts, powdered protein biscuits, vitamin supplements and whatever we eat, except of course the things which are explicitly harmful and she lives in pretty big cage with two bar perches, two flat perches and a curved hut house. She doesn't play with toys but nevertheless we keep some small ones in her cage at all times She bathes daily, sometimes twice or thrice daily. There are certain peculiarities about her lifestyle namely - (1) she sleeps at around 12:00-12:30 am. and wakes around 9:30 - 10:00 am, (2) she doesn't have a mate [Bulbuls are not sold as pets here] but there's some family member with her almost all the time, (3) she likes to bath at around 11:00 p.m. even in the winter and (4) Her vent feather patch is orange in colour even-though it should be deep red in colour. Her life could have been better but we try as much as we can.
Now, the main question is, as the title suggests, about the various sounds that she makes, her various calls, her actions and her gestures. She reacts in a different manner to the different members of our family - my Grandmother, my Father, my mother and I and even in her everyday life, makes a bunch of varying sounds. Some of her sounds and gestures are pretty apparent, like greetings, anger and desperation when I hold her to bring her out of the cage, her expressions when she is being inquisitive and when she is being overtly happy or enthusiastic. But nevertheless there are a lot of things that I'm unable to understand and that is where I need help, possibly a research work (if someone could find it) with audio files and the definitive meaning of the audios/calls. The closest that I could find was this - http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0001-37652004000200024. But it didn't contain any audio files and so wasn't all that helpful to me and all my mails to the writer of the aforesaid paper were unanswered. All in all, if you could provide me with anything, that'd be helpful and will certainly help me get a better understanding of Piddu.
Thank You.
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