Peter Shute asked about the call of the Barbary Doves in the Williamstown area,
Melbourne.
I visited the site a week ago and made the following description of the call; a
trisyllabic, rolling, somewhat high-pitched 'coo cooor-oo' with the emphasis on
the middle syllable and a quality like a Scotsman rolling his 'rrrs' .
It is readily distinguished from the equivalent call of the Spotted Dove which
has four syllables - 'cor-cor-cooroo' with the emphasis on the final syllable.
The Spotted Dove also gives a trisyllabic call which sounds to me like 'the
Soccer-oos'. [for those who don't know that is the nickname for the Australian
Soccer Team]
Apologies if I am just confusing people - trying to explain these calls in
words is not easy!
We have know idea of the ancestry of these birds [Eurasian/African] but, as
potential invasive pests, they are being removed by the Victorian Government.
Peter Menkhorst
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