-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Shute [
Sent: Sunday, 26 January 2014 6:48 PM
To: David Cook
Cc:
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Unknown bird call
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
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> On 26 Jan 2014, at 9:11 am, "David Cook" <m("bigpond.net.au","cookdj");">> 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 ; m("canberrabirds.org.au","canberrabirds");">
> 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: m("canberrabirds.org.au","canberrabirds");">
> Subject: FW: [canberrabirds] Unknown bird call
>
> This call?
>
> From: David Cook [m("bigpond.net.au","cookdj");">]
> 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<m("gmail.com","peonyden");">>
> Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:33 PM
> To: Nick Payne<m("internode.on.net","nick.payne");">> ; COG bird
> discussions<m("canberrabirds.org.au","canberrabirds");">>
> 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
> <m("internode.on.net%3cmailto","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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