That's interesting Robin, thanks, I have never recorded those pre-dawn
warbling songs so it was good to hear them.
So the Aussie Magpie has 1. pre-dawn and dusk melodious warbling, with
individual variation. And 2. the daytime call is louder carolling
often with 2 or more birds joining in.
Plus an occasional bit of mimicry as well!
Vicki
On 17/09/2016, at 9:41 PM, Robin Whittle
[naturerecordists] wrote:
> Here's a Saturday night diversion from technology itself:
>
> https://soundcloud.com/robin-whittle/australian-magpie-singing-before-the=
-dawn-5am-11th-august-2016
>
> https://soundcloud.com/robin-whittle/australian-magpie-singing-at-dawn-6a=
m-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
"While a picture is worth a thousand words, a
sound is worth a thousand pictures." R. Murray Schafer via Bernie Krause.
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