Around upper Narrabundah, I am hearing a lot of what I take to be the territorial song of the Noisy Miner. The xeno-canto recordings are mainly of begging, contact, alarm or mobbing behaviour, not many of the song,
which has a softer and rhythmic quality. I hear this at any time of day, although it’s sometimes labelled ‘dawn’. I assume this is the sound given in Australian Bird Guide as ‘tiu-tiu-tiu for territorial advertising including dawn song’.
The sound I am hearing contains an evenly repeated phrase which I would render as ‘wichachoo – wichachoo – wichachoo – wichachoo’. However, there is some variation in the phrasing. Sometimes more like 2 syllables (XC269271),
and there is a version in xeno-canto where the phrase is more like a 4 syllable ‘wicha-chachit’ - XC504336
https://xeno-canto.org/species/Manorina-melanocephala?pg=1
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