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Raven calls, Chum Creek, Victoria

To: Kev Lobotomi <>
Subject: Raven calls, Chum Creek, Victoria
From: Bill Stent <>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2015 08:24:04 +1000
They had the Aussie wail, but it was just not like the ones you hear north of 
Bendigo. If I had have been up there when I heard them I would have said it's a 
couple of Aussies with a sore throat.

On 16/05/2015, at 10:22 PM, Kev Lobotomi <> wrote:

> Could be either little or Australian in that area. What did they call like 
> like.-Kevin Bartram
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> A couple of weeks ago I was at Chum Creek near Healesville in Victoria. I had 
> to pick my daughter up from a scout camp. While I was there, a couple of 
> ravens flew over, calling as they did. My immediate thought was that they 
> were Aussie ravens, and was surprised that they were there, but then I wasn't 
> sure. The calls weren't quite right for Aussie or Little.
> 
> Could I have been hearing Aussies after all - the calls were much closer to 
> that than Littles (and no, they definitely weren't Forests). Or could I have 
> heard some odd local dialect of Littles?
> 
> Any thoughts?
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