Hi All,
Have posted another ‘mystery’ bird-call on the BSQ Sounds website
I’m still pondering on the previous posted call (the possible Powerful Owl) but have had credible suggestions that it might be a ‘distressed’ Green Tree Frog or a nocturnal Forest Kingfisher. Although I’ve received suggestions that it could not possibly be an owl, I have heard from some that juvenile owls do indeed have shrill-calls (although now I’m not sure that it could only be a Powerful) and it has been suggested that Boobook and Barking can also call in this manner…..
Over to you,
Tom
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on Bush Hen calls – several years ago while studying environmental science, my class mates and I caught a Bush-hen in an Elliot trap at Holmes Jungle near Darwin. We took it back to the university where I called a birder some might remember – John McKean – to see whether he could identify its call. His best guess was Silver Gull!
One of my most pleasant memories of the bird was sitting in Holmes Jungle with a friend – a barrister who’d come from down south to defend a friend of mine against a spurious case brought, as we later discovered, by a couple of over zealous cops. I think we were both feeling pretty miserable about the whole business.
It was sunset and the sky visible through the canopy was burnt orange. We were drinking a nice red. All around us we could hear Bush-hen calling. Our worries about Sue’s fate and the unjustness of it all gradually disappeared. It was a wonderful night, until we discovered that the gate was locked! No problem. We walked to a friend’s home, rang a taxi and I returned the next day to collect the car.
Denise
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Would like to notify that today’s mystery call ( http://www.aviceda.org/audio/?page_id=142) has been solved by Nick Leseberg, it is (of course) a (Pale-vented) Bush-hen *(Amaurornis moluccana) *
Well done Nick,
Tom
Tom
Just had another listen to your tape recording and there appears to be a Koel calling in the background. On first listening to the recording earlier, I thought it was the local Koels calling outside the house.
Greg Little
Tom
Other than the frogs it sounds like another crake or rail making the bird call.
Greg Little
Hi Tom,
I think this is an Owlet Nightjar. Have a listen to the “Choo” call in Morecome’s iPhone/iPad app. You last post has me stumped, but for what it is worth, I don’t think it is an owl.
Regards
Judith
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