David, By far the commonest honeyeater in that area is Crescent, which
sounds much as you describe. Yellow-throated sounds more like mainland
White-eared.
Cheers, Richard.
At 08:53 AM 31/12/97 +1100, you wrote:
>Over Christmas I had the pleasure of walking the Overland Track in
>Tasmania from Cradle Mt. to Lake St. Claire. The weather was poor and
>the number of birds was low. One of the common bird calls in the
>Eucalyptus forest sounded exactly like "shit-a-brick". The only bird I
>could see was the Yellow Throated Honeyeater. The field guides and the
>BOCA tapes give one of the calls of this species as "pick-it-up". Can
>anyone to on the list advise if it was likely to be the Yellow Throated
>Honeyeater that we were hearing or if there is a different species which
>has a call more like "shit-a-brick" than "pick-it-up"?
>Thank you.
>David
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