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.
Recently I did some spotlighting in the Angahook-Lorne State Park in
Victoria. The combination of the blood-curdling screams of Yellow-bellied
Gliders and the grunting of Koalas was really quite spooky.
I was thinking that early explorers or settlers who came across these sounds
without knowing what they were would have been really spooked!
Paul Coddington
Adelaide, South Australia
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