Thanks David, I am familiar with that type of call over the past year which I best describe as scratchy or perhaps a cackle. I have been hearing it quite a bit around my back fence where a female
was often confronted by a couple of RWBs which had a nest near there, from which a couple of chicks fledged earlier this week. Particularly over the past couple of years of close koel watching it has become very clear that Koels have a much bigger range of
calls than the standard ko-el or whoas by the male and the kek kek keks of the female which the literature indicates. It would be great if someone was able to study them properly. Jack Holland
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A female Koel was flying around near my house this morning and was seriously confronted by a RWB. What caught my eye, or actually ear, was its repeated call - not just when it was in conflict with the RWB. It
was not the common kek kek kek, but something more like short squawks which went on and on.
I am not familiar with this sound or when a female makes that sound rather then the usual one.
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