Australian magpie dawn song

["Robin Whittle" robin_whittle]

Here's a Saturday night diversion from technology itself:

    https://soundcloud.com/robin-whittle/australian-magpie-singing-before-t=
he-dawn-5am-11th-august-2016

    https://soundcloud.com/robin-whittle/australian-magpie-singing-at-dawn-=
6am-16th-september-2016

This is the one magpie, five weeks apart, with his or her song of the
dawn.  No doubt it is like the other magpies during the day -
quardle-oodle-ardling with the best of them and studying the wet grass
for worms like an academic - but before or during dawn, we sometime hear
this song, which is unlike anything we hear from magpies during the
day.  I haven't noticed any songs like this in the evening, but the
Wikipedia page does refer to such dusk songs:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_magpie#Vocalisations

(The recordings were done with a Sony PCM D-50 and its internal mics.  I
should have filtered out some wind noise in the second one.)

  Robin                 Daylesford, NW of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia


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-16th-september-2016>