RFI: Woodland bird call ID

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Subject:	RFI: Woodland bird call ID
From:	David McDonald <>
Date:	Sun, 11 Dec 2005 14:13:52 +1100

Greetings. I participate in the Canbera Ornithologists Groups' Woodland Survey. In grassy box woodland near Canberra during the Sept survey I heard a very distinctive call that I could not identify. I described it thus: fairly slow, far-carrying, ventriloquial in that it was hard to work out where it was coming from, evenly spaced notes on a fairly even pitch:
oo-wa-chew-chew or wa-wa-chew-chew

I conducted the Dec survey today. Same call, same location. Today I noted it as
too-wer, choo-choo, repeated a couple of times

I've listened to taped calls of some possible species sans success. Any sugestions as to the bird's identity? Very frustrating!

David McDonald
Canberra
phone (02) 6231 8904
email david.mcdonald AT gpo.com.au

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