What is Australia's Noisiest and Quietest Bird?

[Michael Whitehead <>]

Taking an adaptionist approach the loudest bird would probably have to be heard in the rainforest. The complex environment provides an impediment to sound so avian sirynxes (sirynces?) have got to be extra loud. How much louder would a White-throated treecreeper be if you brought her out into the open?

 

Mike

Michael Todd <> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'd second both of the previous suggestions. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo would 
> have to be among the loudest and all the quail-thrushes would qualify as 
> being hard to hear when they are giving contact calls.
>
> I'd just like to add the emuwrens to the quiet list. Even their full song 
> is quite soft. As one of my hobbies is audio recordings I can definitely 
> say thay emuwrens are the hardest birds to get good recordings 
> of. Extremely frustrating! All I can say is that they must have great hearing.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mick Todd
> Toronto, NSW
>
>
>
> At 09:27 PM 8/11/2004, knightl wrote:
>
> >On Monday, November 8, 2004, at 05:47 PM, Edwin Vella wrote:
> >
> >>Also what is the quietest bird inAustralia(to normal hearing)?
> >
> >I take it that you mean, which bird is the hardest to hear when it is 
> >calling at
>  it's loudest? [Any bird can be quiet if it isn't calling or is 
> >just burbling to itself]
> >
> >If that is the case, one candidate would probably be the spotted quail 
> >thrush, which has a high-pitched call that some people can't hear.
> >
> >Regards, Laurie.
> >
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