Hi All,
Thought I’d summarise the response to this question for the list, especially since none of you actually replied to the list though several helpful people responded to me personally. Thanks especially
to the birder who responded almost instantly saying “That’s a Lewin’s!” and the person knowledgeable about both birds and frogs who said he had never heard a frog like that in the ACT (actually two people said that), and thanks Kim Farley for checking with
experts outside the ACT. Apparently it’s the “grunt-wheeze” call of the Lewin’s, not often recorded before in the ACT. If you listen all the way through the Lewin’s calls on the Xeno Campo website there are a couple of similar calls.
This experience reminds me that there are many birdcalls which we don’t hear on our apps, and am wondering if I should learn more about frogs.
Cheers,
Sue Beatty
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Subject: Lewin's Rail or frog??
Hi All,
This morning at Giralang Creek I recorded a Lewin’s Rail making a weird creaky door call, or did I record a frog?? I’ve left it up on my ebird list for this morning (23/11/22) if you’d like to check. All opinions welcome,
but if it was a frog, what frog was it?
As well as in ebird, hopefully it’s attached above.
Cheers,
Sue Beatty
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