Hi all,
A note from Chris Benesh offering thanks and comments.
More than likely relieved it is possibly not a PA system;-)
Very best and thanks again to all.
Alan
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From: Chris Benesh <>
Date: 27 October 2010 6:20:53 PM AEDT
To: Alan McBride <>
Subject: Mystery vocalization from Alice Springs
Hey Alan,
Thanks for taking this on and for forwarding your comments.
Intriguing ones from Lloyd.
If you could forward my brief comments to the list in response to his that
would be great.
When I was first hearing the call, I actually wondered if it could be a
Magpie-lark doing the entire suite of sounds. But I noticed a couple of
instances when the vocalizing birds seemed to be "talking over" one another.
In the recorded example, there is some "talking over" that occurs in the
penultimate series, at about the 33.6-35 second mark, where two whistles of the
mystery bird are "stamped on" by the Magpie-lark. This blending of notes does
not occur elsewhere in the cut and is suggestive of two birds being responsible
for the sounds being heard (in my mind).
Of course, that doesn't rule out a bowerbird as being one of the two involved.
I am grateful to all who have provided their thoughts so far. I feel a little
better knowing that it wasn't something "easy".
Regards,
Chris
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Chris Benesh
Tucson, Arizona
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On Oct 26, 2010, at 9:06 PM, Alan McBride wrote:
> Sounds very much like a bowerbird to me - the Great Bowerbird does something
> similar at times. There seems to be calls which sound very much like that of
> Magpie-lark mixed in. When you put this up on the screen and analyse it, the
> latter seems to be part of the whole call - mimicry along with the more
> strident calls? The more I look at and hear it, the more it seems like a
> bowerbird.
>
> Lloyd Nielsen,
> Mt Molloy, Nth Qld
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