Peter - I was just passing on an extract of the BOCA recording to which
David Cook had drawn attention (below). This was the 'heed the deer' call.
Yours seems similar to me, although loud/soft, with 'the deer' being
prominent.
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Shute
Sent: Sunday, 26 January 2014 7:33 AM
To: Geoffrey Dabb;
Subject: Unknown bird call
Did Geoffrey's recording turn out to be the right species? Here's another
Brush Cuckoo variation, recorded at Mt Hotham, not that far from Mt Buffalo,
at about 1300m just a couple of weeks before you heard yours. These and
Fan-tailed Cuckoos were calling everywhere I went on the lower parts of the
mountain.
Peter Shute
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From: Geoffrey Dabb
Sent: Friday, 24 January 2014 8:22 AM
To:
Subject: FW: [canberrabirds] Unknown bird call
This call?
From: David Cook
Sent: Friday, 24 January 2014 8:06 AM
To: COG bird discussions
Subject: Unknown bird call
Dennis / Nick
The description matches the alternative call of the Brush Cuckoo, rather
than the standard one of evenly spaced, slightly descending single notes.
The other call is the one which often leads to a manic high-pitched finish.
If you have access to the BOCA calls, the first half is of the standard
call, the second half has the call than strongly resembles Nick's
description.
David
From: Denis Wilson<>
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:33 PM
To: Nick Payne<> ; COG bird
discussions<>
Subject: Unknown bird call
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
Some things in the universe are greater and deeper than human intelligence.
It is the Power of Nature which bewilders us.
"The Nature of Robertson"
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On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Nick Payne
<<>> 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.
Nick
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