COG’s very own website now has some
calls associated with the Birds of Canberra Gardens page.
Go to: http://garden.canberrabirds.org.au/contents/birdGroups/birdIndex.htm.
Click on the photo in many of the species accounts for a call (mp3).
Paul, for the particular call heard in Flynn, you might want to start
with the nocturnal birds group and the cuckoos group.
Remember that a bird such as the Southern Boobook has a wide variety of
calls and they may not all be on the samples you can find on the web.
Cheers
Anthony
-----Original Message-----
From: Denis Wilson
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Sent: Wednesday, 12 December 2007
11:12 AM
To: Canberrabirds List
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] help
on nocturnal call id
Here are two reasonable collections of
bird calls which are readily available on the web. Obviously they will not have
all calls.
The ABC Library (of all places) has a
moderate-sized library of Australian bird calls (approx 125 calls) which are
freely available for listening to. Presumably this was built up for "sound
effects" purposes originally.
The files are sorted alphabetically, by
last name of the bird eg Bush Stone Curlew is filed under C for Curlew
Before you can play these audio samples
you will need to download the RealPlayer (if you do not have it installed
already.) It is downloadable and free from the Real
Audio website.
The Australian Museum's "Birds in
Backyard" series has sound files attached to many of its entries.
It has quite a good list, though - 340 species. You usually need to scroll down
the page, looking for a box marked "calls". There may be a file
available for download in MP3 format. These files are quicker to open than the
ABC site, and play on a variety of regular "audio players" (eg,
Windows Media Player, etc).
Most annoyingly this list is sorted by
first name of birds, and not even the most commonly used names. King
Parrot is filed under A for Australian King Parrot. So, it might take a bit of
scrolling to find what you might be looking for. Bush Stone-curlew is filed
under B.
Occasionally I have come across other
sites with some calls, but the selection is pretty limited usually (e.g.,
Lamington National Park).
Hope these notes help. I will be
interested to see if other Listers come up with other on-line sources.
Love to Grow: Grow to Love
