Morcombe says "Male has a mellow, rather musical, ringing, "quow-eel, quow-eel,
quowee, quowee'; .... Female gives a series of four or so shrieking whistles:
"quieek-quieek-quieek-quieek'."
Luckily my Morcombe iPad app includes recordings of the calls, which are MUCH
easier to comprehend!
On 31/12/2012, at 12:05 PM, "Geoffrey Dabb" <> wrote:
> Yes, just to be clear that's what I call the 'huh-uh-uh' call. While 'keek'
> might capture the sharpness better than 'huh', it carries the possible
> ambiguity of a long 'ee', which being more drawn out would recall, perhaps,
> the sound, rather, of a Sacred Kingfisher, for example. However, in the
> interest of a common coinage I am happy to go with 'keek' if that is what
> people prefer. At this stage, I am reluctant to confuse matters by
> proposing 'kuh-kuh-kuh'. The important thing is to recognise that 'keek' is
> the same as 'huh' - assuming of course that it is.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anthony Overs
> Sent: Monday, 31 December 2012 11:38 AM
> To: Paul Fennell
> Cc: Canberrabirds
> Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] 4 Koels in Hawker
>
> Since first thing on Christmas morning we've had two koels around the
> vicinity of Mataranka/Dungowan/Erldunda streets in Hawker. Last heard one at
> 11pm last night.
>
> One of the birds was mostly doing the 'keek keek keek' call.
>
> Cheers
> Anthony
>
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On 31/12/2012, at 11:21 AM, Paul Fennell <> wrote:
>
>> This morning round 7.30 between the large blocks of flats just above the
> Hawker shops, 4 black Koels were spotted, harassed by a magpie, and having a
> right barney amongst themselves. Last seen flying off together towards
> Scullin.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Paul
>> iPad
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