RE: Whipbirds, Weather, Male chauvinism, & Conservation

["Osborn, Paul PR" <>]

        Syd Curtis said about Whipbirds.
        'They may call at dawn, but after 9 am, only very rare calls (or
none),
> except on that one day in advance of the heavy storm rain.  It's hard
> to
> escape the conclusion that the two events were connected.'
> 
I remember a speaker (sorry, can't remember his name) at a Hunter Bird
Observers Club meeting several years ago, giving a talk on Eastern
Whipbirds who claimed that they had the ability to sense oncoming rain
and called when they did so. I think he said, though, that the call they
made at this time was somehow different from their normal call.

Paul Osborn