Very apt Denise, but maybe not as poetic :)
Sent from my iPad
> On 17 May 2016, at 8:06 pm, Denise Goodfellow <>
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> "Someone whistling with his head down a toilet bowl” (Birds of Australia’s
> Top End). That description enabled Keith Betton’s wife Esther to locate
> Black-tailed Treecreeper while they were driving.
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> Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
> PO Box 71
> Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841
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> PhD candidate, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.
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> Founding Member: Ecotourism Australia
> Nominated by Earthfoot for Condé Nast’s International Ecotourism Award, 2004.
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> With every introduction of a plant or animal that goes feral this continent
> becomes a little less unique, a little less Australian.
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>> On 17 May 2016, at 7:38 pm, Andrew Bell <> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Cheers
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>> Andrew
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>> Sent from my iPad
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>>> On 17 May 2016, at 12:12 pm, Lawrie Conole <> wrote:
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>>> 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.”* ...
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>>>> * On 15 May 2016, at 12:18 PM, Graeme Chapman *
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>>>> Make the sound available by all means. If you hear it you'll know anyway
>>> - it sounds
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>>> ++++++++++++
>>> Dr Lawrie Conole
>>> Tylden Vic 3444
>>> Australia
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>>> lconole [at] gmail.com
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