Honeyeaters still moving over Duffy today

[Martin Butterfield <>]

Geoffrey

I am unsure how to orally-reproduce ‘smjeep’ but don't recall that being the sound I make when sucking lollies, which is more like  "Schulloooop" or "scrunchh" - depending on your choice of lolly.   The distinction given to me by Denis Wilson, presumably based on many Autumns lurking beside nets on New Chums Rd, and which works well is that White-naped Honeyeaters 'mew' when migrating whereas YFHE 'chip'.

Martin

PS another lolly sucking noise - mainly restricted to strong toffees - is 'yaroooooo' when fillings are loosened.

Martin Butterfield

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On 10 April 2016 at 09:23, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

Jean  -  white-naped in flight sometimes give the ‘smjeep’ lolly-sucking call rather than the chip chip.  They are also distinctly smaller/dumpier than the yellow-faced if seen together   g

 

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Subject: [canberrabirds] Honeyeaters still moving over Duffy today

 

I thought the stream might have finished 2 days ago, but low and behold for about 1.5 hours this morning, White-naped Honeyeaters and Yellow-faced Honeyeater continued to move over my garden. Some reasonable sized groups of these birds were not calling, but were evident by the shadows they cast – have others seen this and if so were they also likely to be White-naped? 

 

Jean