Owlet Nightjars

[Tom Tarrant <>]

Hi All,

Excuse the 'pun' but it 'sounds' like the secret to finding 
Owlet-Nightjars is to learn the call. At night the most obvious one 
seems to be a "kee-ick" sound but in winter they often call in the 
daytime, a double-syllabled deep "brrrp-brrrp" very different to the 
former.  I once found some young at night (from their call) begging with 
a strange monontonous sound.
We usually have them around and regularly hear them on our acreage at 
Samsonvale, though they have been a bit quiet lately.
In SE Qld I've found them fairly common in mangroves, eucalypt woodland 
and rainforest, further afield they are found in brigalow and mulga areas.
If anyone in the Brisbane area wants some help with sites please contact 
me privately on the address below.
Tom

 wrote:

> Any further advice from those who regularly find Owlet Nightjars welcome.
>
> Bob Sothman
> Adelaide