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Re: Owl in suburbia. (East coast, Australia.)

Subject: Re: Owl in suburbia. (East coast, Australia.)
From: "Alistair Stewart" alsnothome
Date: Thu Nov 1, 2007 5:52 pm ((PDT))
Hi Peter,

The main call is Spotted Turtle-dove (Streptopelia chinensis) and is a
common, introduced species. Unfortunately, not an owl or even a native
species but it does have quite  a nice call. There are a few other species
calling in or near your backyard that I could ID:
House Sparrow, Common Starling, Common (Indian) Mynah, Common Blackbird, Red
Wattlebird, Eastern Spinebill, Grey Fantail, White-plumed Honeyeater and
possibly a White-throated  Gerygone, but the call is too short and drowned
out by other noise to be certain.


Alistair

On 02/11/2007, Peter <> wrote:
>
>   I've always wondered what this bird was that I've heard since
> childhood growing up in Sydney. I've always imagined it to be an owl.
>
> To place you in the scene, this is a recording from my window in the
> suburbs of Melbourne. I recorded it on an overcast day, after a rainy
> night. It includes exciting sounds of the suburbs like the ubiquitous
> Indian myna, a cat's bell jingling, the neighbour driving off to work,
> a plane flying overhead, and powertools (no, sorry, it's not an lyrebird).
>
> It's recorded with an unmodified Zoom H4 with the built-in mics. The
> unit is connected to mains power. It's fairly noisy. I was going to
> de-noise it in Audacity 1.3.3 but the signal-to-noise here is a bit
> too high for it to work well without losing the body of the sound
> (Audacity 1.3.3-beta's new noise-removal has been very effective for
> removing noise from sound effects, speech and the like).
>
> Anyway. What's this bird? Any other comments/feedback also appreciated.
>
> http://pengo.org/audio/clip01.mp3
> (length: 2:04 minutes. 3.33 MB)
>
>  
>







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