Another aspect of Wonga Pigeon calling:
Based in Imbil (Mary Valley, south of Gympie, Q.) in the 1950s and a
Forestry colleague told me that if you heard a Wonga, you could call it up
by whistling their call - provided the bird was on the ground. Whistle the
call and mostly it would walk towards you. But if it was perched in a tree,
you could whistle as long as you liked and it wouldn't come.
Don't know if he was right. I never tried. But he may have been: he had a
vested interested so to speak: to shoot Wongas for the pot. Illegal and
reprehensible? I suppose so. But pales into insignificance compared to the
action of the Forestry Department in destroying thousands of acres of
rainforest to plant Hoop Pine?
Cheers
Syd
> From: "Greg & Val Clancy" <>
> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:12:10 +1000
> To: "Peter" <>, <>
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Wonga Pigeon Calling
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> HANZAB states with respect to advertising call "Given by both sexes
> (Goodwin); female seldom utters more than five notes in series."
>
>
> Greg Clancy
> Ecologist
> Coutts Crossing
> NSW
> www.birdrangers.com
>
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