Good morning all
A friend has asked if anyone can identify this bird heard in Bali.
> I have a bird puzzle for you but I am not sure it is an Australian resident.
> We are in central Bali and there is bird I cannot identify. I wonder whether
> you have ever heard it..
> 1. Nocturnal. One hour after dusk, during the night at infrequent
> intervals. Loud.
> 2. I think it is a larger bird.
> 3. Not a monotonous nightjar, not an owl… very different from the giant
> nightjar of Australia for instance
> 4. The first thing you hear is a loud rustle of feathers. Reminds me of
> the display of the oropendola in South America, a colonial nester in hanging
> nests which mimics other bird calls.
> 5. The rustle is followed by 4 or 5 separated calls “FOOK—uus” the
> second syllable descending.
Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
PO Box 71
Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841
043 8650 835
PhD candidate, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.
Founding Member: Ecotourism Australia
Nominated by Earthfoot for Condé Nast’s International Ecotourism Award, 2004.
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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