I've made a mockup of the call, if anyone's interested to listen to it:
https://soundcloud.com/petershute/synthesised-night-parrot-call
John said they call very rarely, and might only call once, so you could listen
all night and miss it because your foot crunched in the gravel at that moment.
Before anyone complains that this could be abused, it's actually two Bell Miner
notes. If people want to try to get a Night Parrot to respond to Bell Miner
calls, I don't think they're going to have much luck.
Peter Shute
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> Subject: [Birding-Aus] John Young's Melbourne Night Parrot
> talk last night
>
> 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.
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