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Strange birdcall

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Subject: Strange birdcall
From: brian fleming <>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:14:13 +1000
On Sat 12 September, about 5.10 am, in Ivanhoe, Melbourne, I woke and heard a bird calling in the dark. I could not place it so went to the window and put my head out.

What I heard was a descending single call like 'Tiuu', or 'Tew' continuously repeated. It was not at all like the thin descending 'fieew, fieew' of the Horsfield Bronze Cuckoo. This had quite a carrying effect, audible inside the room. When I put my head out, I could detect an answering call, beginning before the end of the 'Tiu' call, rather rattling or clicking, like 'Kchkek! and apparently much closer.

I wish I had a tape recorder.

I find my mind is running on cuckoos but that is a pure guess.

The bird/s kept it up until at least 5.30. This morning I heard it again, this time the two parts sounded closer together and it went on until drowned out by Blackbirds.

Any suggestions?

Anthea Fleming


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