Re: Stab in the dark … Peregrine Falcon?

[Nathanael Coyne <>]

Thanks everyone for your ideas and information ... definitely not a Masked Lapwing as we have two couples within a hundred metres and I know their call well. Not a Silver Gull. Okay so sounds like probably not a Falcon either. Barn Owl, possibly, but I have yet to find an audio recording of a Barn Owl calling in-flight and continuously ... but the samples of their screeching I've found so far are close. The only other call I've found that comes close is the Dollarbird, but it wasn't that.

Anyway, as I said, not expecting positive identification but if I hear it again I'll have some ideas and be able to better listen for characteristics of the call that'll help narrow it down.

Cheers,

Nathanael Coyne

On 11 January 2015 at 22:04, Nathanael Coyne <> wrote:

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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