Bird ID needed: Werribee, Australia

["Paul Jacobson" thebrunswicktwitcher]

Hi All,

Spent the day at Western Treatment Plant, to the South West of  
Melbourne - at bit of a mecca for local birders - and saw my first  
Orange-bellied Parrot in the wild. OBP's are critical endangered and  
winter in the area, so this was a bit of a highlight.

Anyway I made a short recording of a "Mystery Bird" which was heard  
calling from the grass in a number of places. The call is a repeated  
single short descending note. There had been Horsfeild's Bronze- 
Cuckoo's nearby and they have a similar but distinctly longer call  
(or did in 2002).

For the gear geeks this was made with a Telinga Universal dish fitted  
with an AT3032 mic and hooked up to an Oade modded Tascam HDP2.


http://www.mactrix.com.au/files/recordings/MysteryBird.mp3

any thoughts?

cheers
Paul