Hi,
Last year from my house in McMahon’s Point I heard over two nights a yapping sound intermittently emanating from Balls Head Reserve. The third night the yapping creature moved to be sitting behind the house but remained elusive. The sound didn’t match my previous experiences of Barking Owls and didn’t match any sounds I was able to download from the internet. Unfortunately I was out of town the rest of the week and have never heard it again.
I was reminded of this when last week when I was called by a non-birding friend of mine who lives behind Manly Dam who said he had just seen a Barking Owl(according to what he’d seen in his bird book) sitting on his lawn. The following night he heard a yapping sound ‘like a small dog’..a sound that he hadn’t heard before.
Any comments?
Cliff Booth
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Cliff,
I agree with everyone that what your friend has seen and both you and him have heard were two different creatures and that both of you may have heard Sugar-gliders. Why wasn’t the bird on your friend’s lawn a Tawny Frogmouth? – A very common misidentification by non-birders…
Cheers,
Nikolas
Hi All,
A likely candidate is the yapping of Penguins – I hear them here in Birchgrove quite commonly at this time of year.
Cheers,
Graham
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Hi,
I’d suggest sugar gliders which have a persistent “yip yip yip yip …”, among other warbles, gurgles and mutterings. I have theard them do this yipping at an even pace for hours. They also sometimes do a “yip-yip” the same pace as a Barking Owl’s call, but higher pitched
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Yes, if it’s a single yap, repeated, it’s likely a Sugar Glider (i.e. yap…. yap…..yap….). Barking Owl has a very regular repeated double-yap (wook-wook…… wook-wook…..), the second ‘wook’ lower in pitch than the first. Hope that helps.
Cheers, Carol
At 1:10 PM +1000 15/6/12, Greg Little wrote:
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Cliff
Might be Sugar Gliders that have a quiet yapping call or sometimes one can hear Black-winged Stilts yapping while flying overhead at night.
Greg Little