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FW: [canberrabirds] FW: Butcherbird

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Subject: FW: [canberrabirds] FW: Butcherbird
From: Geoffrey Dabb <>
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2019 22:25:52 +0000

Nicki has an exceptional ear.  Mine is barely average, but I can generally pick up the local GBB.  More than a month ago the local pair called daily, often throughout the day.  Now they have a nest with young they have fallen silent.  I think the tonal quality is distinctive rather than the phrasing, although the typical phrase to me is something like a yodelled ‘dee-doo-de-da-da’, stress as in ‘Good God Almighty’.

 

A small bird sitting on a branch

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From: Nicki Taws <>
Sent: Monday, 28 October 2019 6:47 AM
To: 'Dr David Rosalky' <>
Cc: 'Canberrabirds' <>
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] FW: Butcherbird

 

Hi David

 

Sounds like a Grey Butcherbird to me. From my experience Canberra GBBs are less melodious than others I have heard in Vic and Qld.

 

Cheers

 

Nicki Taws

0408 210736

 

 

 

From: Dr David Rosalky
Sent: Sunday, 27 October, 2019 8:36 PM
To:
Subject: [canberrabirds] FW: Butcherbird

 

Heard this guy in Sydney this morning.  Got a really great concert for a while when I did not have my phone.  When (s)he resumed, it was only in snippets and I caught a couple of snippets in the attached file. 

Even though I was directly under the tree where the singing was coming from, I could not see the bird and therefore was unable to ID it visually, but I believe the sound was different from a Grey BB, richer and more melodious.  I feel that it was a Pied BB.

 

Is the attached sound file sufficient for someone to tell me which BB I was listening to?

David Rosalky

 

From: David Rosalky <>
Sent: Sunday, 27 October 2019 8:18 PM
To: David Rosalky <>
Subject: Butcherbird

 



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