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Koel commotion

To: 'John Harris' <>, 'chatline' <>
Subject: Koel commotion
From: Suzanne EDGAR <>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 03:20:59 +0000

Woken this morn by 2 koels, m & f, in back garden,  having a domestic on bare branch atop  a big old gum: screaming at each other face to face: koel, keol, …wirra wirra!!!

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1 wirra wirra;

 

From: John Harris [
Sent: Saturday, 12 January 2019 12:16 PM
To: chatline <>
Subject: [canberrabirds] Koel commotion

 

Koels were extremely active this morning around Kangaroo Close (Ginninderra Creek at Percival Hill). They were active in the trees between the houses and the creek and also in the street trees.  This is the usual carry-on here, two, possibly three males and two females. Males wirra wirra and pursue the females who play hard to get and fly off to hide in the leafy parts of a different tree with their usual loud screeches. Males also try to drive off the other male or males – hard to tell how many but calls from different directions. Not so many RWBirds today but no evidence of RWB nests either, not this side of Percival Hill. Probably nests up  there though, usually are.

 

 

 

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