Bali bird call

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.