Hearing the Striated Grass-wren

[Tony Russell <>]

Try the NOWINGI track. It goes in and down from the road, round to the left, then up hill to a crest. This crest area, especially to the left side, has proved good for the Mallee EW. Had them there a couple of times. Use your eyes rather than relying on your lugs.

On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 at 08:51, calyptorhynchus <> wrote:

I have this very peculiar condition where I frequently mishear people at work or in the family and everyone thinks I'm deaf, but I can still hear all the bird calls, including high-pitched ones like Fairy-wrens.

Perhaps I only hear what I want to hear.

:-)

John L 

On Tue, 13 Oct 2020 at 09:16, Bill Stent <m("gmail.com","billstent");" target="_blank">> wrote:

I confess that my hearing is deteriorating badly now, so I'm following this discussion with keen interest!

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 3:59 PM korenm64 via Birding-Aus <m("birding-aus.org","birding-aus");" target="_blank">> wrote:

One option that might be worth investigating is, rather than trying to hear the high-pitched calls, use an app that will create a real-time spectrogram so you can “see” the calls. I did a quick search and found this article that lists a few apps that appear to do this:

https://justbirding.com/bird-call-identifier/

I haven’t tried any of them myself, but since I suffer from high-frequency hearing loss and my hearing aids can only help so much, I may give one or more of them a try.

Cheers, Koren

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On 12 Oct 2020, at 10:15 am, David Dickson <m("iinet.net.au","daviddickson1");" target="_blank">> wrote:

I have dipped on sighting the Striated Grass-wren and the Mallee Emu-wren on each of my last three trips to Hattah-Kulkyne NP. I use the approach to finding these birds suggested by Rohan Clarke and Tim Dolby, “walk slowly and quietly while listening for their high-pitched calls.” I have spent days trawling through ideal mallee spinifex habitat and heard not a squeak - deafening silence. I would say my hearing is in the normal range for someone my age - 67.
Is there a readily affordable microphone that can pick up the high frequency calls and ‘convert’ them into something I can hear? I imagine that people interested in bats face a similar problem and are able to access equipment that enables them to hear their calls.
Yours
Dave Dickson


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