RE: [canberrabirds] Stab in the dark . Peregrine Falcon?

["Philip Veerman" <>]

Wow that is a big stab. Of course your suggestion might be right but no way to be sure. It is very unlikely. Peregrine Falcons are noisy at their nest but rarely call at other times. As far as I know they are not at all nocturnal, (the Hobby sometimes hunts into the evening). So unless they are nesting there (which I doubt), you would be unlikely to hear them there. Begging young of various parrots might give calls that you think sound like the Peregrine Falcon on the COG website. I just listened to that recording and it certainly is correct. In the dark Peregrine Falcons would not look light-coloured under the wing. Silver Gull might be a good guess.

 

Philip

 

-----Original Message-----From: Nathanael Coyne [ Sent: Sunday, 11 January 2015 10:04 PM      To: COG Mailing List
Subject: [canberrabirds] Stab in the dark … Peregrine Falcon?

Hi,

Please forgive my lack of knowledge of bird species and their calls and habits … but I was just outside 9:45pm at night and heard a lone bird fly overhead squawking with a call that reminded me of a seagull, but wasn't. All I know it was unique, not something I recall having heard before.

As I said, I'm not good with recognising bird calls but well enough that I can discern between a flock of Crimson or Eastern Rosellas or Superb Parrots flying over the house.

Being dark I couldn't see it well as it soared about a 100 metres overhead in Macquarie but at a guess about the size of a Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, light-coloured under the wing.

I've had a listen to some of the bird calls on the COG website and the closest I can find is the Peregrine Falcon. Even though it's not nocturnal, is there a chance it was a Falcon? Not expecting a positive identification here :)

Cheers,

Nathanael Coyne (Boehm)

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