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Re: Help with an unknown call

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Subject: Re: Help with an unknown call
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Date: Wed, 07 Jan 98 09:56:03 -0500
In <>, on 01/07/98 
   at 09:30 AM,  said:


>     In the course of a family holiday at Santa Monica camp, between
>Aireys 
>     Inlet and Lorne on the coast of western Victoria, I walked about a 
>     kilometre up the valley of Grassy Creek from the camp at about 6:30
>am 
>     on Saturday 3 January.  While sitting on a boulder in the creek I 
>     heard an unfamiliar call from somewhere high on the north slope of
>the 
>     creek valley.  It was a four syllable honking or trumpeting call,
>the 
>     first, second and final syllables all of similar pitch and duration,

>     the third shorter and higher: "Hoh-hoh-heh-hoh".  It sounded a
>strong 
>     call, and was different in quality from the Pied Currawongs which
>were 
>     also calling; the notes were clear and the pitch did not "slide" as 
>     currawong calls do.  The call was given twice in relatively quick 
>     succession, maybe five or ten seconds apart, then again, once, about

>     twenty minutes later.  I couldn't see anything of any size moving in

>     the forest on the slope at the times of the calls, or in between. 
>The 
>     bush in the valley is fairly dense, tall eucalypt forest, verging on

>     rainforest in the bottom of the valley.  Can anyone offer any 
>     suggestions (other than that I should carry a tape recorder)?
>     
>     Thanks very much.
>     
>     Jack Krohn
>     
>     Ph (BH) 03 9881 8897, (AH) 03 9886 4473



Could it be Crimson Rosella or King Parrot?



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