Ah is that what those doves are called? I'm surprised I've never seen
one while it's calling. Well so much for my 8-year-old imagination.
I'm surprised you can hear so many birds in the track. Is there a
freely available guide or downloadable training tape for learning to
tell bird calls (that I could listen to between podcasts when commuting)?
Peter Halasz.
--- In "Alistair Stewart"
<> wrote:
>
> 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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