mystery call from inner west Sydney

[Allan Richardson <>]

Hi Andrew,

Just had a listen and, so this is just a first impression to get the ball rolling - I've not heard a native bird making this call, but it does sound like Japanese Quail (Coturnix japonica) that folk keep in aviaries. You might have a neighbour that keeps them? Fits with hearing them in the middle of the night I should think as well.

Seems to be plenty of calls on the internet that you can compare with.

Regards,

Allan Richardson

Morisset NSW

 

On 13/02/2013, at 2:14 PM, Andrew Taylor wrote:

Maybe some will be kind enough to ID this call for me.  It was recorded on
my phone last week after midnight in a back street of Annandale/Leichhardt -
very urban inner city Sydney.

http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~andrewt/mystery.wav

The call was being uttered every 30-90 seconds.  May well be something
obvious but it has me beaten.  I thought I knew the local frog, fruit-bat
& possum calls.  Somewhat like some Owlet-Nightjar calls (unlikely at
this location). Could be a captive animal or non-biological.

Andrew
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