Recently whilst 'tagging' acoustic recordings from Sturt NP from June 2012
I noticed a strange call like a child beating a small drum.
At first I thought that it resembled a Tawny Frogmouth (TAFM) but it
definitely has a 'drum-like' quality which I can't hear on other recordings
of TAFM.
I've put two audio-grabs on my audio website <http://www.aviceda.org/audio/>,
the drumming is present on both and there is a more orthodox bird-sound on
the second which resembles Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo (but I'm sure that
it's not)
Could the call be a buttonquail or (heavens-forbid) a Plains-Wanderer? I've
been through the Xeno-Canto <http://www.xeno-canto.org/>, AVoCet
<http://avocet.zoology.msu.edu/recordings?scientific_name_search=Pedionomus+torquatus&name_search=&Search=Search+Recordings>
and Macauley library
<http://macaulaylibrary.org/search?taxon=Plains-wanderer> websites but
can't find anything that fits,
Have a listen and let me know what you think....
Tom
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Ian (Tom) Tarrant
Hawthorn East 3123
Victoria
http://www.aviceda.org
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