Thanks, Geoffrey. No, that's definitely not it. I hear why you suggest
it, but the Fan-tailed C call is clearly different from the bird I heard.
BTW, no sign of the little beastie this morning. :-)
DN
Geoffrey Dabb wrote:
Try the attached Fan-tailed Cuckoo David g
-----Original Message-----
From: David Nicholls
Sent: Friday, 21 May 2010 4:56 PM
To: canberra birds
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] A new bird call for me
Philip Veerman wrote:
I am surprised (impressed) that Anthony could come up with an answer
from that and that David would say it is. Even though I am borderline
willing to believe on that basis that the call he heard was the call of
a Brush Cuckoo, I have my doubt that it would be a Brush Cuckoo making
the call. This is on the basis of being not seen and given the high
level of unusualness - for reasons that Anthony says and I fully agree
with. So I would suggest that a possible Brush Cuckoo call heard is
possibly not made by a Brush Cuckoo.
That did occur to me, and I have seen (female/juvenile) Bower Birds in
the nearby bush 100 metres from the location of the bird I heard this
morning. If I hear the bird call tomorrow morning I'll track it down
visually (as it was, I was on my way out this morning and had only a few
minutes to listen to it.)
That said, the recording Anthony linked to was extremely close
(=identical) to what I heard (except that mine repeated the call three
times before pausing, each time).
DN
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