I haven't been following this thread - here in Brisbane Australian Magpies
are common and are the friendliest of all our local birds. They commonly
forage on grassed footpaths (side-walks?) and don't bother to fly as I walk
past. (Occasional rogue ones attack passing pedestrians, and especially
cyclists, when they have a current nest, but most do not, and there is a
theory that the ones that do attack, have been first attacked in some way b=
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humans.)
But I mainly write to draw attention to a two-CD set recently released by
the British Library, "Beautiful Bird Songs from Around the World". No. 17
on CD 1 is of an Australian Magpie, recorded by Vicki Powys who sometimes
posts to this list, and is the Sound Editor for the Australian Wildlife
Sound Recording Group.
There are six Australian birds in the set.
Cheers
Syd Curtis in Brisbane, Australia.
> From: "Chris Hails" <>
> Reply-To:
> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:32:54 -0000
> To:
> Subject: [Nature Recordists] Re: New File - Australian Magpie
>
> What a great sounding beast this is ! My European ears enjoyed both
> this and the Kookaburra - also good to see your locations on Google
> Earth. Thanks
>
> C
>
> --- 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),
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