Unknown bird call

[Nick Payne <>]

Thanks all, but I've now listened to recordings of the call of the Brush Cuckoo and Little Grassbird, and neither of them match what I heard. The Little Grassbird doesn't have the three notes of equal duration, and the second note is higher in pitch rather than lower. The Brush Cuckoo has all its notes of the same pitch, so it doesn't match either.

If I keep listening to the bird calls on my Morcombe birds phone app a couple of dozen at a time I may eventually find it...

Nick

On 23/01/2014 11:33 PM, Denis Wilson wrote:

I am late in this dscussion, Nick, and I know you said it was on the lower slopes of Mt Buffalo, and coming from a tall Eucalypt.

My trouble is, your description of the call reminds me entirely and almost exclusively of a Little Grassbird.
http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Megalurus-gramineus
Click on the sound file on the right hand column.

Was there a swampy area anywhere, nearby, as the call can carry deceptively. Perhaps the other side of the Gum Tree?

To my ears, the Brush Cuckoo does not fit your description - not even close, as I read your words: 

• Three equal notes, the second slightly lower than the first and the third slightly higher than the first, then the same three notes repeated at a slightly higher pitch, then repeated again at a higher pitch again
  

http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/species/Cacomantis-variolosus

Denis Wilson

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than human intelligence.
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Nick Payne <m("internode.on.net","nick.payne");" target="_blank">> wrote:

Outside the COG area, but while cycling up Mt Buffalo this morning, on the lower slopes I heard a bird call I couldn't identify, coming from a tall Eucalypt. Three equal notes, the second slightly lower than the first and the third slightly higher than the first, then the same three notes repeated at a slightly higher pitch, then repeated again at a higher pitch again. A pause of five or so seconds, and then the same nine notes repeated. In musical notation, like the attached image. Any suggestions on what the bird was? I didn't see it.