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Common Koel? (Altona, Vic)

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Subject: Common Koel? (Altona, Vic)
From: Andrew Taylor <>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 13:33:23 +1100
Peter Shute wrote:
> http://member.melbpc.org.au/~pshute/koelnov2008//MVI_8132.mp3.
> The call isn't as loud as I remember it, presumably because it's
> almost drowned out by closer birds.  I can hear it call six times
> on that recording.  Could that call be a Common Koel, and if not,
> what is it?

I was holding off, hoping for a definitive answer.  The calls seem too
short to be the "koel" call of a Koel.  It is similar to a single "wurroo"
from the "wurroo-wurroo-wurroo..." call but at least around here the
Koels don't usually make single "wurroos". Unless I'm being deceived by
the sub-optimal recording, its not one of the commonly heard Koel calls.

But I can't suggest a good candidate.  Spotted Turtle-Doves do make
similar sounds but I haven't heard one make isolated notes like your
recording (which has typical turtle-dove calls).  A young bird??
Pied Butcherbirds and I think Grey-crowned Babblers also make similar
sounds but generally with lots of other notes included and neither is
geographically likely.

Surely someone has a good answer.
Andrew

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