You're right, it matches the Fan-tailed Cuckoo "pu-wheer" call in the Morcombe
app. I never saw the birds calling, and because there were definitely Brush
Cuckoos around, I assumed it was a milder version of the "where's the pippy?"
call with the last double note merged.
But still a possibility for the birds Nick heard.
Peter Shute
Sent from my iPad
> On 26 Jan 2014, at 9:11 am, "David Cook" <> wrote:
>
> Peter, I can only hear Fan-tailed Cuckoos calling in that grab.
>
> David
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Shute
> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2014 7:32 AM
> To: Geoffrey Dabb ;
> Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] 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
>
> ________________________________________
> 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: Re: [canberrabirds] 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: Re: [canberrabirds] 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"
> www.peonyden.blogspot.com.au<http://www.peonyden.blogspot.com.au>
>
> 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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