Fw: Help

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Not being there, I can't say what it was. Spangled Drongo are rare visitors to our region and so is a unusual possibility. However their tail is distinctly the opposite of wedge-shaped. Assuming you mean wedge-shaped as in the eagle.

 

Black Butcherbird isn't a possibility.  

 

Why not a Koel?  That fits what you wrote and there are many around now, though they commonly use more than one call. 

 

Philip

 

-----Original Message-----From: Paul Taylor [ Sent: Sunday, 9 December 2012 11:05 AM      To:
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Fw: Help

A Spangled Drongo would fit the description of the bird and its call - and no problems
with its range.

 

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Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2012 7:44 AM

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Subject: Help

Hi:

I live in Queanbeyan. Yesterday morning,among the usual early morning avian chorus,there was a "new" bird and a new call. It was the call that struck an unusual note. Very loud,single tone,regular intervals. It went on,cutting through all the other twittering,for so long I just had to try to find the songster.

 

A 90 year old idiot,I have a digital recorder but forgot to take it with me,but did find the bird,still calling,perched in my big ash tree. An all-black bird,as far as I could see,with a wedge-shaped tail.

 

I have a copy of "What Bird is That?",but the only black bird that fitted my view of this one was the black butcher bird.

 

On the Internet I'm informed that butcher birds have a complex song repertoire. So I'm stumped. Also the black butcher bird is among the Birds of the Mangroves.

 

I'm intrigued. Sad to say his presence and performance were absent this morning. I had hoped he would be back.

 

Would  any COG member have a clue?

Regards

Gerald Bennett

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