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call of the Barbary Dove

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Subject: call of the Barbary Dove
From: "Peter Menkhorst" <>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:16:34 +1100
Peter Shute asked about the call of the Barbary Doves in the Williamstown area, 
Melbourne.
I visited the site a week ago and made the following description of the call; a 
trisyllabic, rolling, somewhat high-pitched 'coo cooor-oo' with the emphasis on 
the middle syllable and a quality like a Scotsman rolling his 'rrrs' .
It is readily distinguished from the equivalent call of the Spotted Dove which 
has four syllables - 'cor-cor-cooroo' with the emphasis on the final syllable. 
The Spotted Dove also gives a trisyllabic call which sounds to me like 'the 
Soccer-oos'. [for those who don't know that is the nickname for the Australian 
Soccer Team]

Apologies if I am just confusing people - trying to explain these calls in 
words is not easy!

We have know idea of the ancestry of these birds [Eurasian/African] but, as 
potential invasive pests, they are being removed by the Victorian Government.

Peter Menkhorst
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