SHOLA SKY ISLANDS

Viral Joshi

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am primarily interested in the field of Bioacoustics and currently work as a Project assistant in the Avian Bioacoustics Project of IISER Tirupati.  For my research, I am looking at Song variation of White-Bellied Sholakili (Sholicola albiventris) in the Palani hills landscapes. This species belongs to the newly discovered genus Sholicola, which is a group of beautiful passerine songbirds endemic to the Western Ghats of India. Apart from this, I am also using autonomous recorder units to look at patterns of avian communities in the same Palani Hills landscape.
I am interested in different types of vocal behaviors especially vocal mimicry, alarm call, and duet song. I would like to understand these complex behaviors with an ecological and conservation oriented perspective.

Projects Involved: Jerdon's Courser, Forest Owlet, Passive Acoustics of Shola Birds, 
Automated Bird song detection.



PERSONAL AND OTHER INTERESTS

​I have been watching (and listening) birds for almost a decade now. For me "Birding is all about a call." In this pursuit, I have visited different landscapes throughout India and recorded variety of wildlife sounds. I started recording bird sounds in 2009 and since then, I have recorded sounds of nearly half the avian species that are found in the Indian subcontinent. In the past, I have worked for BNHS' Vulture conservation project in Gujarat. Otherwise, the Himalaya is my favorite place where I have spent quality time in understanding the avian communities at different elevations. Now, I am falling in love with the western ghats.
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RESEARCH ARTICLES
  • Arvind, C., Joshi, V., Charif, R., Jeganathan, P., & Robin, V. (2022). Species detection framework using automated recording units: A case study of the Critically Endangered Jerdon's courser. Oryx, 1-8. doi:10.1017/S0030605321000995
  • Sawant, S., Arvind, C., Joshi, V., Robin V. V. (2022) Song Richness Index: A measure to understand the diversity and repetition of notes in a birdsong. bioRxiv 2021.12.18.472638; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.12.18.472638 
  • Sawant, S., Arvind, C., Joshi, V. and Robin, V.V. (2021), Spectrogram cross-correlation can be used to measure the complexity of bird vocalizations. Methods Ecol Evol. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13765
  • Viral Joshi, Robin VV.(2019) White-bellied sholakili Sholicola albiventris Feeding on Shieldtail snake Uropeltidae sp. IndianBirds 15(4) 127-128
  • Taylor Crisologo, Viral Joshi, Sahas Barve (2017). Jack of all call and master of few:vocal mimicry in the Tawny lark (Galerida deva). Avian Biology Research 10(3).
  • Soham Dixit, Viral Joshi, Sahas Barve (2016). Bird diversity of the Amrutganga Valley, Kedarnath, Uttarakhand, India with an emphasis on the elevational distribution of species. Check list 12(2),2016
POPULAR ARTICLES
  • Devvratshinh Mori, Viral joshi (2017)-Recents Sightings of the Lesser Florican In Gujarat.
  • Devvratshinh mori ,Viral joshi, Mukesh bhatt, Meet bhatt. 2017. Bar-Winged Flycatcher-Shrike in Vansada National Park. Flamingo 15: (2) 1-4
  • Viral Joshi, Mohan Ram Legha (2017). Eurasian scops owl in Bhavnagar district. Flamingo 15: (2) 11-12
  • Devvratshih Mori, Viral Joshi (2017). Status and distribution of the Black Shaheen In Gujarat. Flamingo 15: (2) 1-4
  • Viral Joshi, Divyaraj shah (In coordination with Forest department Amreli) - Status and distribution ecology of Lesser Florican (Sypheotides indicus) in Amreli, Gujarat (Greater Gir Land Scape Area) - “Kalkaliyo”, Nature club, Surat.

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  • About
    • Shola Sky Islands
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  • Research Areas
    • Landscape Ecology >
      • Landscape mapping
      • Sky Island Birds
      • Avian Malaria
      • LTEO
    • Bioacoustics >
      • Sholakili Song Diversity
      • Jerdon's Courser
      • Passive Acoustics of Shola birds
      • Automated bird song detection
      • Detecting rare species with acoustic arrays
      • Forest Owlet
    • Bird Biogeography >
      • Peninsular birds
      • Forest Owlet
    • Citizen Science and Outreach >
      • Tirupati Bird Atlas
      • Capacity building
      • Young Naturalists of Andhra Pradesh
      • Sky Island Photostory
      • Sky Island Beatbox
    • Completed Projects
  • People
  • Publications
  • Opportunities
  • Open Source Data
  • Media Coverage
  • Gallery
  • Acoustics Workshop
  • YoungBirdersCamp