help on nocturnal call id

[John Brannan <>]

I've heard Boobooks using a soft warble as a contact call when they have recently fledged young. The call by the young birds was higher pitched and hoarser.

John Brannan

Paul Joice wrote:

Thanks for the reply.
I'd ruled out Boobook as it didn't sound like the call I was familiar with. I didn't realise they had a variety of calls.
The call I'm hearing is quite a soft delicate sort of warble, which is then answered.
I've got two URLs now that I can rummage through for anything that sounds similar.

Fingers crossed.

Thanks again.


Overs, Anthony (REPS) wrote:

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 [m("bigpond.com","peonyden");">]
*Sent:* Wednesday, 12 December 2007 11:12 AM
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*Subject:* Re: [canberrabirds] help on nocturnal call id

Hi Paul

Bird calls on the web.

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.

http://www.abc.net.au/archives/av/birds.htm#a

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 <http://www.real.com/player/realplayer_intl.html?lang=en&loc=au&src=""> website.

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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).

http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/finder/birdlist.cfm

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.

Cheers

Denis
www.peonyden.blogspot.com <http://www.peonyden.blogspot.com>

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