I agree entirely, this is a more than adequate description for any birder,
without the risk of tempting playback - and it is often tempting (and not
always inappropriate). I'll continue to listen out in spinifex country and I
won't need a recording to know Ive heard a NP.
Who could forget Graham Pizzey's description of the White-throated Gerygone's
"silvery falling leaf of a song in a minor key..." Knew it the first time I
heard it. An art of poetically describing songs that is worth preserving.
Cheers
Andrew
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> On 17 May 2016, at 12:12 pm, Lawrie Conole <> wrote:
>
> As Graeme has suggested ... if you hear one, and you are vaguely attuned to
> bird calls, you'll know.
> I believe I've heard the NP in breakaway/spinifex country SE of Cloncurry
> in NW Qld. The call has stuck in my head these last few years, and it's
> much as has been described.
>
> ... *Thanks to Young’s 2013 recordings, scientists knew that the night
> parrots have a two-syllable call, a cadence described by Murphy as roughly:
> “ding-ding.” But the parrot they tracked roosted with another bird that had
> a three-syllable call: “ding de-ding.”* ...
>
>> * On 15 May 2016, at 12:18 PM, Graeme Chapman *
>> * < <>>
>> wrote:*
>
>
>> Make the sound available by all means. If you hear it you'll know anyway
> - it sounds
>
>
>
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