I agree whole heartedly with Mike Whiteheads comments. Take for example,
a rufous scrub bird that inhabits extremely dense undergrowth, yet it's call
can still be heard up to 400-500m in often undulating, dense rainforest and
wet sclerophyll vegetation
I agree with Mick Todds comment on quail-thrush and the comment on the high
pitched 'tick' of the green catbird, but i'd also add the thin 'seet' contact
call of the bassian thrush.
my two cents worth.
-- Original Message --
>Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 22:12:37 +1100 (EST)
>From: Michael Whitehead <>
>Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] What is Australia's Noisiest and Quietest Bird?
>
>To:
>
>
>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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