Yes - happy to confirm he said half an octave lower.
On 2 March 2015 at 08:27, Peter Shute <> wrote:
> With perhaps 300(?) others I attended John's talk at Federation Square
> last night. We've had reports about earlier talks he's done, so I'm only
> going to mention a couple of things that stood out for me.
>
> 1. John mentioned that the description of the call in P&K is spot on - "A
> far carrying two note whistle". I was under the impression that we'd been
> told that this description wasn't correct, but I could be wrong. John said
> that we should imagine the call as two Bell Miner notes, about half a
> second apart, with the second note half an octave lower. I think he said
> half an octave - can anyone confirm that? John said there's also a four
> note call, but didn't describe it.
>
> 2. John repeated his reasons for not releasing the call. I asked if there
> was any reason why he couldn't release a spectrogram of the call, and he
> expressed his intention to do that "within 12 months". I think this is an
> important step towards allowing others to help in the search for more
> populations.
>
> 3. I'm sure we'd been told that in the video the bird hoppped "like a
> kangaroo". We watched it three times, and I didn't see it hop once. Did we
> see the same video as everyone else? Does this bird hop or not?
>
> 4. The bird in the footage had lowered both wings to the ground as it
> moved around (in a sort of distraction display?). I'm not sure if that's
> been mentioned in previous reports of John's talks. I certainly haven't
> seen photos of it before.
>
> Thanks to Chris Watson and others for organising the talk, and to John for
> taking the time to fly down to do it. I greatly appreciated the chance to
> finally see the footage and more photos for myself.
>
> Peter Shute
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