On Sun, 20 May 2001, Andrew Taylor wrote:
> Also on the King after dark we heard an interesting
> call - a continual cackling from the mangroves just in from the fringe.
> We couldn't locate the bird despite some scanning with a spotlight from
> the boat. The slippery mud banks deterred closer investigation.
Alistair Stewart and Frank O'Connor have both helpfully suggested in a
private e-mail this might have been a Chestnut Rail. This was my first
thought at the time but I dismised it after reading the brief call
description in Slater, the only book I had with me.
The call was indeed similar to the Chestnut Rail call on the BOCA tape.
I should have checked out the tape before asking on birding-aus.
Meant to mention in my previous e-mail - I was a little surprised to see
a juvenile Silver Gull (i.e with brown ear patch) near the Wyndham boat
ramp - I hadn't expect them to be breeding in the region.
Andrew Taylor
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