what CALL is that? (SEQ)

[Peter Woodall <>]

Hi Judith

It sounds rather like a Pacific Baza (Crested Hawk) to me and the habitat is OK
as well.

Peter

At 02:20 PM 15/06/2005 +1000, you wrote:
> near Woodford, SEQ
>
> A single call, repeated at intervals, as follows:
>         One long descending but almost piercing pheeeew, then a gap of 
> one or more minutes, then the call repeated...  pheeeew, then gap - call 
> - gap - call -- etc. NOT a Fan-tailed Cuckoo -- a clearer, steadier call. 
> More ?echoey; more 'eerie'... The bird moved between the trees during 
> this time, but was never seen. After about fifteen minutes it was heard 
> no more.
> Occurred along a bird-rich streamside corridor, in the midst of mixed 
> rural land -- dairying, 'hobby-farm' blocks, small towns, then further 
> off, state forest & pineapple farming; below the north end of the 
> D'Aguilar Range where sub-coastal moist country meets the start of the 
> dry, harder country running west through Kilcoy, etc.
> Unseasonally mild-to-warm 'winter' days. The Dry has not yet arrived, either.
>
> Judith.
>
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