Oh Andrew, I’m disappointed!
Denise
On 17 May 2016, at 8:15 pm, Andrew Bell <> wrote:
> Very apt Denise, but maybe not as poetic :)
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> Sent from my iPad
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> 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
>> 043 8650 835
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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.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
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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.”* ...
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>>>>> * On 15 May 2016, at 12:18 PM, Graeme Chapman *
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>>>>> wrote:*
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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
>>>>
>>>> lconole [at] gmail.com
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