Hello from a first time poster to this list.
I'm wondering if there are any resources on the net, or to be found
in the library or bookshop, that help with identifying bird calls? I
mean in the sense like an audio Simpson&Day, a 'what bird call is
that?'.
I'm am a fairly casual bird watcher living in Brisbane, not really a
'twitcher' per se, and while I know most of the common Australian
species calls (that you hear in NSW or south-east Qld), and some
others I've learnt from observation. However this morning at dawn
while lying in bed I heard two unmistakably new calls I'd never heard
before (one was a close two-note sort of call, not melodious like a
magpie or butcherbird but more like a filtered burst of white noise
and nothing like the regular birds in the area that might make a call
like this (olive backed orioles, blue face honey eaters, black faced
cuckoo shrikes, noisy miners, currawongs). Being a lazy birder as per
the entries on the topic on Trevor's bird blog, I didn't rush out of
bed to see if I could spot aforementioned bird(s). I have not heard
the call since.
I searched on the net but found there are only some impoverished
sites with Northern hemisphere bird calls. So hopefully someone knows
either a hidden resource, or a commercial resource that I can buy or
borrow.
kind regards
scot mcphee
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