Hi Bill
You could easily get either a Little or Aussie Ravens around Chum Creek. You
need to use call to separate them. You still haven't described the call you
heard. You definitely get Australian on the coast of Victoria, for example you
get Aussies at Phillip island (along with Little) and Cape Liptrap, where you
get Forest and Little in the same area.
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From: "Bill Stent" <>
Sent: 18 May 2015 7:21 AM
To: "Geoff Leslie" <>
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Subject: Raven calls, Chum Creek, Victoria
Thanks for that Geoff, that's the information I needed.
The birds I saw and heard were Australian Ravens.
Bill
On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 10:37 PM, Geoff Leslie <> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
> I live not that far from Healesville, and the Australian Raven is certainly
> a sedentary local bird here in Yea, often seen winging homeward over the
> town uttering its plaintive call. I understand that further south they
> disappear, being absent from Melbourne and the coastal regions.
>
> Geoff Leslie
> Yea
>
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> Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 22:10:48 +1000
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] Raven calls, Chum Creek, Victoria
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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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