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Re: Strange bird call

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Subject: Re: Strange bird call
From: Brian Hawkins <>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 02:57:05 -0700 (PDT)
Could it have been a Boobook owl?  I once heard a similar noise, a repeated 
descending yee-oo, yee-oo, yee-oo, yee-oo - very rich and loud - which I traced 
to a Boobook owl, though I did not actually see the owl making the call.  This 
was in autumn, on the NSW mid north coast.  Pizzey and Knight refer to such a 
call.   

Brian

Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 11:14:13 +1000
From: brian fleming <>
Subject: Strange birdcall
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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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