Benj
Frogs stop calling once you start to get
close to them and do not start again for some time later when they think the
coast is clear
Mammals move away, generally by breaking
cover and fleeing
Bunyips just eat you or do other things
that can not be mentioned on this chat line
Crocodiles usually sound like a dog
barking
Could you have been mistaken for a young
bird’s mother?
Did you try calling back?
Did you try just taking up a vantage point
and staying still for a while to see what happened?
All very interesting, I can not answer the
question but have made a point that hopefully took some of the suspects out of
the frame
Cheers
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From:
Whitworth, Benjamin - BRS [
Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2007
2:37 PM
To: ;
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds]
Nursery swamp - unusual call [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
About the call. Initially I thought it was a begging bird,
very low, rasping/slightly guttural and slightly metallic, very loud (the rocks
may have amplified and deepened the call), and repeated off and on perhaps a
currawong, but was not right. But I moved closer and it gave the call more
often- so the other option was an alarm call. The fact that the animal could
probably see me when it was calling, (even though I couldn’t see it),
also backs this up. The call started when I rounded a rock and perhaps
frightened it. It stopped calling when I went away, started again when I came
close.
I was standing in nursery swamp, it was on the S edge, in
thick brush, on a rocky rise (~2m high). When I moved towards it, it would move
away silently, up to 20m back or sideways, then start calling again, after
trying this 5 or so times I gave up.
It was at ground level, or at least within 1.4m of the
ground.
I just have a hunch/feeling that this animal was guarding a
nest or young. My guess is, some strange lyrebird alarm call, or satin
bowerbird, or begging currawong. There were also tracks and wombat poo, so
maybe a wombat, maybe a red necked wallaby, swamp wallaby, maybe a bunyip. I
don’t think it was a glossy black, I have heard them beg. The fact it
moved around reduces the chance of a frog, I think.
Benj
From:
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Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2007
12:02 PM
To:
Subject: [canberrabirds] Nursery
swamp - unusual call[SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Benj
Your
description of the "wraaa" call low and metallic is quite a good
match for Glossy Black Cockatoo. Your judgement on the intensity of the call
would help here. When considering the possibility of it calling from within a
nesting hollow it seems to be well worth following up.
cheers
Richard
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