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Common Koel, Dollarbird, magpies and currawong song: GBS [SEC=UNCLASSIFI

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Subject: Common Koel, Dollarbird, magpies and currawong song: GBS [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
From: "Whitworth, Benjamin - BRS" <>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:04:48 +1000

Yesterday morning I had a dollarbird at my GBS site in Hawker and on Tuesday morning had a Common Koel and about 50 silvereyes flew through from the N East heading South West. A couple of weeks ago I had a noisy friarbird.

Other than that my recording of new GBS species has been minimal recently.

This may be due in part to a super aggressive magpie that swoops me as soon as I get out into the front yard. I haven’t been seriously swooped since I was 16, but this bird swoops me even when I am looking directly at it (highly unusual)! I think it got very angry that I was focussing on its nest with my binoculars- trying to see inside the nest. It doesn’t seem to swoop anyone else, and it has made surveying my GBS site dangerous and miserable over the past 2 weeks.

Last Thursday, a currawong in our yard gave the chuck wee call from 4:30 am to 6:45pm, every 10 seconds. I think this is the call John Leonard heard although disagree with Geoffrey, I think it is a different call. After over 14 hours of constant calling, very loudly, I wish I had a gun, either to kill the bird or myself- I had such a headache. The call continued in my head for quite a while after the bird stopped. When it started up again the next morning I was not happy. But, by the next day most of the currawongs had left. I have recorded 22-28 currawongs in my GBS site for the past 3 or so months. But numbers are now only about 5 or 6.

 

Benj Whitworth.


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