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Re: New File - Australian Magpie

Subject: Re: New File - Australian Magpie
From: "Suzanne Williams" scw1217
Date: Wed Jun 18, 2008 5:15 am ((PDT))
Wow. That is a fantastic recording.

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Suzanne
Suzanne Williams Photography
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/swilli41/www
Florida, USA



--- In  "John Tudor" <>
wrote:
>
> This 47 second edit was recorded in our backyard earlier this month
in
> Littlehampton, South Australia. This is in the hills about 35 km
east
> of Adelaide.
>
> The main bird here is the Australian Magpie (gymnorhina tibicen),
> although Kerry & I know this one as 'Larry' and he sits on the back
> fence post waiting for us to throw him something to eat. Whilst he
is
> the one that sits vigilantly waiting, once something is thrown out,
he
> has to fight the dozen others that appear from nowhere.
>
> Staccato coughing at about 4 seconds is a Red Wattle Bird
(anthochaera
> carnunculata) and these become quite noisy when they get going.
>
> The rhythmic creaking first heard at about 21 seconds, and repeated
at
> 26, 34, 39, & 44 is a frog kindly identified by others on this group
> as the Bibron's Toadlet (Pseudophryne bibroni) (A.K.A. Brown Brood
> Frog , Brown Toadlet)
>
> I'd like to know what the bird is at 10 seconds please if anyone can
> identify it. And also the final call in the fade out.
>
> In keeping with an earlier post that discusses GPS use in the field,
> I'm going to try and include a Google Earth KML overlay file with
each
> recording, or at least include the Lat/Lon coordinates here in the
text.
>
> So for this recording the Lat/Long is
> 138.52.380E 35.1.932S
>
> Which actually is a fence post in my back yard (give or take a metre
> or so)
>
> There is also a Google Earth KML file included in the folder 'John's
> Files' The KML file is of Larry's fence post and the house
immediately
> to the north is ours.
>
> Recorded in M/S with a Rode NT1-A and Legacy Axis-70 ribbon into a
> Sound Devices 702 CF recorder.
>
> Regards
> John
>
http://f1.grp.yahoofs.com/v1/ULVXSM0nfp5iE5cng4XOM49fruMOO4bTUzBIdTV12
q06yn-Uk0EvYQZBmNTCshfbUCmPfdr1kHbPWH30wnLr77DGq0-vxYk6/John%27s%
20Files/Australian%20Magpie.mp3
>





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