Hi Allan,
Thanks, Allan. It's good to hear from someone who has been trying to work
out if you can split these two on calls. Your answer is pretty much what I
suspected - that it's extremely difficult because of the variation in the
calls of LF (I wouldn't know about SF). One question this raises, though,
is whether the BOCA calls are reliable. As I said in my original posting,
the call I heard at Anstead was almost identical to the first call for SF
on the BOCA recordings. I don't doubt that that recording is of a SF, but
does anyone know if LF might produce the same call?
Rod
From:
"Allan Richardson" <>
To:
<>, "Rod Gardner" <>
Date:
04/11/09 09:18 PM
Subject:
Re: [Birding-Aus] Satin-Leaden Flycatchers again
Hi Rod
In recent years I've been pretty keen to test the calls of SF compared
with
LF. And over the past few seasons have tracked down many a variation on
the
LF call suspecting that a SF would show itself, only to find LF. A week
ago
I was working on the Newnes Plateau in the western Blue Mountains and
encountered LF regularly, most deviating from the calls that I am used to
hearing on the Central Coast where I live. The last flycatcher call I
encountered during the week sounded very much like a LF, but turned out to
be a SF. I have heard SF in the past, which sounded different to LF calls,
but I suspect, from my own experiences, that the variation of call within
each species may make it hard to draw some general rules of thumb here.
Regards
Allan Richardson
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