Last Saturday morning, while riding along the top of Beauchamp St in
Deakin, we heard unfamiliar hoarse calls coming from high up in the E.
Mannifera street trees. We were cycling and didn't have binoculars with
us, and all we could see of the birds (three of them) was that they were
approximately the size and shape of a Red Wattlebird. We watched for a
couple of minutes but they stayed high in the trees. While cycling along
Kent St this morning, within about a hundred metres of the sighting last
week, we heard the same call. After looking through my copy of Birds of
the ACT for possible matches as regards size and shape, and listening to
the corresponding bird calls in the mobile version of Morcombe's Birds
of Australia, I think that what we saw and heard must have been Little
Friarbirds.
Nick Payne
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