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ID suggestions please

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Subject: ID suggestions please
From: Vicki Powys <>
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 11:43:03 +1100
Little Corellas?  They do have some melodious calls.

Vicki Powys






on 17/3/02 9:41 PM, Syd Curtis at  wrote:

> 
> Q.  Why is a twitcher like a policeman?
> 
> A.  Because there's never one around when you want one.
> 
> :-)
> 
> 
> March 16, 6:30 AM, or thereabouts, and a pair of white birds flew over
> suburban Hawthorne in an easterly direction.  Determined, straight flight.
> Hard to estimate height, not knowing the size of the bird.  My best guess is
> that they were about five times the height of an average single-storey
> house, and were about the size of a Sulph.-crested Cockatoo or a bit
> smaller.  Definitely not Egrets, nor White Ibis.
> 
> I would probably have dismissed them as S-c Cs, but for their intermittent
> calls.  Single notes and somewhat musical in quality.  Not at all like the
> sounds I associate with S-c Cs.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Syd
> 
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