Fw: Intriguing bird-sound

I meant to c.c. this to Birding-aus but hit ‘reply’ instead of ‘reply all’. Hi Tom, The booming sound is a female Emu. The cuckoo-like call sounds familiar but I will need to give it some more thought. I was listening to a couple of female Coastal Emus today. I am involved in a survey for the Clarence Landcare on this endangered population. The proposed route of the Pacific Highway upgrade near Grafton will cut through the Coastal Emu’s habitat and will further endanger the species. For those who haven’t already signed my petition to the NSW Minister for the Environment you can access it with the following link: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/768/595/306/save-the-coastal-emu/# Regards Greg Dr Greg. P. Clancy Ecologist and Birding-wildlife Guide | PO Box 63 Coutts Crossing NSW 2460 | 02 6649 3153 | 0429 601 960 http://www.gregclancyecologistguide.com http://gregswildliferamblings.blogspot.com.au/ —–Original Message—– From: Tom Tarrant Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2014 5:45 PM To: birding-aus@birding-aus.org Subject: [Birding-Aus] Intriguing bird-sound Recently whilst ‘tagging’ acoustic recordings from Sturt NP from June 2012 I noticed a strange call like a child beating a small drum. At first I thought that it resembled a Tawny Frogmouth (TAFM) but it definitely has a ‘drum-like’ quality which I can’t hear on other recordings of TAFM. I’ve put two audio-grabs on my audio website , the drumming is present on both and there is a more orthodox bird-sound on the second which resembles Horsfield’s Bronze-Cuckoo (but I’m sure that it’s not) Could the call be a buttonquail or (heavens-forbid) a Plains-Wanderer? I’ve been through the Xeno-Canto , AVoCet and Macauley library websites but can’t find anything that fits,