Hi Judith
It sounds rather like a Pacific Baza (Crested Hawk) to me and the habitat is OK
as well.
Peter
At 02:20 PM 15/06/2005 +1000, you wrote:
near Woodford, SEQ
A single call, repeated at intervals, as follows:
One long descending but almost piercing pheeeew, then a gap of
one or more minutes, then the call repeated... pheeeew, then gap - call
- gap - call -- etc. NOT a Fan-tailed Cuckoo -- a clearer, steadier call.
More ?echoey; more 'eerie'... The bird moved between the trees during
this time, but was never seen. After about fifteen minutes it was heard
no more.
Occurred along a bird-rich streamside corridor, in the midst of mixed
rural land -- dairying, 'hobby-farm' blocks, small towns, then further
off, state forest & pineapple farming; below the north end of the
D'Aguilar Range where sub-coastal moist country meets the start of the
dry, harder country running west through Kilcoy, etc.
Unseasonally mild-to-warm 'winter' days. The Dry has not yet arrived, either.
Judith.
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Judith L-A
S-E Qld
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