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G'day Mates,
While I have seen Barking Owls along streams I have
never seen one sitting over water.
If calls be the thing, my contender is the
Great-billed Heron which has one call that is a cross between a crocodile roar
and the bellow of a large bull in pain, gurgling in the throat as the sound is
produced. To me that is the scariest sound, other than man made, in the
Australian bush.
The Lardel people have a ' boogey man monster' type
creature which is used to encourage personal and camp cleanliness along with
adherence to food taboos. Tthuit, the Mulgary Spirit, has a head which resembles
a croc and a platypus, a croc's legs and the body and tail of a dugong. It can
live in any watery environment, dematerialise and invade the stomach of
miscreants.
Regards,
Alan
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