Blackbird mimcry

To:	Paul Fennell <>
Subject:	Blackbird mimcry
From:	John Brannan <>
Date:	Sun, 09 Dec 2007 22:34:01 +1100

For the last year or so, one of the Blackbirds in our garden has been incorporating a distant Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo call into its repertoire. Gets me every time. And now it's borrowing phrases from recently arrived the Brown Thornbill...

John Brannan

Paul Fennell wrote:

Chris

You can have mine from Scullin. Wretched thing yodels at 4.00 am far too much.

On another point, during the day I often hear a two or three note Koel call, but often at the same time as the interminable blackbird carolling. I am not sure it is a separate Koel, or the Blackbird doing some imitation.

Paul Fennell

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