Having just watched the Barangaroo Australia day ceremony on
ABC TV, I noted that at the start there was a one minute’s silence item
during which one didgeridoo was performed, the only comment made was that it
was marking the dawn. However quite unlike the usual long drone sound, the
performance seemed to me as an exact copy of the woof woof call of the Barking
Owl (BO) and nothing else. The tone and spacing of notes was obvious (to me). The
bird call is such a distinctive sound and before we removed habitat and made
the BO rare through most of Aus, it must surely have been very notable to
aboriginal people around Aus. Is there likely to be that connection. Just a
thought. Any comments?
Philip
