I have mentioned that the Finniss Crescent Mr K is saying ‘wirra-wirra’
a lot more than ‘koel’. There were plenty of ‘wirra-wirras’
this afternoon, plus a soft ‘whirrooo’ given in flight, in the
small reserve on the south side of Carnegie. Hanzab says the ‘Coo-ee’,
to use the Hanzabese, is given before the female arrives and responds, when ‘Whurroo’
is given repeatedly and excitedly. A female was flying around today giving
a sharp nasal ‘zhink’ when moved on by the RWBs. I suppose ‘zhink’
might be what Hanzab calls ‘keek’. Either the M or F once
gave an arrestingly loud resonant ‘wuh-huh-huh’, the previous
reporting of which, if indeed it has occurred in any of various possible
verbalised forms, has not so far been found by me.
