Hi Graeme (& others) Interestingly, your recording from O'Reilly's on your
website sounds very similar to the calls I've heard most frequently from our
western birds also (i.e. Western Shrike-tit). The only Eastern Shrike-tit I've
seen/heard was at O'Reilly's a few years ago, in rainforest not far along the
Python Rock Track (I think that's the correct track :S), which called with a
series of single mournful notes, rather than the double-noted call I'm familiar
with from WA and different to the O'Reilly's birds on your recording What that
shows and whether it's useful I'm not sure! Cheers,John
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> Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 16:14:17 +1100
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> Hello Peter,
>
> Just to pick up on your comment that "I'm not sure where Phil's idea of 'very
> different Calls' comes from". Until I'd spent some time at O'Reillys in the
> rainforest I would have agreed with Phil - the calls of Northern Shrike Tits
> do sound different to Eastern Shrike-tits but now that I have had more
> experience I would modify that statement to ......sound different to most
> Eastern Shrike-tits.
>
> In my experience, the rainforest inhabiting birds at O'Reillys (a very odd
> habitat for a Shrike-tit) do have in their repertoire calls that are almost
> identical to the northern Shrike-tits at Drysdale River. I've heard and
> recorded lots of Eastern Shrike-tits and haven't heard "northern" type calls
> anywhere but at O'Reillys. I would be interested to know where you've heard
> these calls in the east - they must surely occur elsewhere because you are
> obviously familiar with them. Unfortunately we know so little about the
> entire repertoire of all but a few of our native birds in Australia that it's
> downright embarrassing.
>
> For those who are interested in the different Shrike-tit calls, my website
> has a good selection where they can be compared easily .
>
> Cheers
>
> Graeme Chapman
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