Hi birders
Could anyone help identifying this call for me? Someone on Birds in backyards posted the mp3 file, so the link will take you directly to the recording. The person backs onto Ku-ring-gai National Park.
http://www.birdsinbackyards.net/sites/www.birdsinbackyards.net/files/mys tery%20bird.mp3
My thoughts are as follows:
The first 6 seconds of the double note definitely sounds like a Noisy Miner. Not sure what the call signifies though. Seconds 7-9 I am not familiar with, but sounds somewhat similar to some kind of honeyeater perhaps. Could well be the Noisy Miner again.
The downward trill at 10-12 is a Fan-tailed Cuckoo.
Then at 13-15 the NM again followed by the second type of double note, which kind of makes me think it is the same bird, hence Noisy Miner.
19-21 sounds similar to an alarm call of Noisy Miner.
22-23 again the second type of double note.
I would discount the Superb Lyrebird. I cannot hear any calls in this recording that would even remotely remind me of a Superb Lyrebird. From my limited experience they usually incorporate a mechanical whirring kind of sound and some other “typical” Superb Lyrebird specific calls. I have forwarded to a knowledgeable birder friend of mine and his thoughts were mostly Noisy Miner as well. We could well be wrong though.
Any thoughts?
Thanks..
Kind regards
Akos
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I forgot to add that I wouldn’t be too surprised if a Starling did go through a number of calls quickly – some years ago I was sitting outside at Southampton Uni and heard a Starling go through a complete series of Nokia phone ringtones. Cheers,
Tony
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I did wonder about a Common Myna – they can occasionally be very good mimics and there’s no shortage of those birds around… Cheers,
Tony
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Another possibility might be Starling – they sometimes produces convincing mimicry although I haven’t heard one through several species quickly like this. My first guess would have been Lyrebird though.
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I thought Whipbird – it has a scolding type of call sometimes Marie Tarrant
I can’t get Spotted Pardalote from the calls but there is a hint of Striated Pardalote and what seems to be a poor imitation of a Magpie-lark call.
Greg Dr Greg. P. Clancy Ecologist and Wildlife Guide Coutts Crossing NSW 2460 0266493153 0429601960
It sounds like a spotted pardalote to me…
That is a difficult one. I get the impression that all of the calls are being made by the one bird which is mimicking other species. The Fan-tailed Cuckoo call is very weak and I wonder if some of the other calls are rosella calls being mimicked not too accurately. I would think maybe Olive-backed Oriole or Grey Shrike-thrush but, like the lyrebird, they usually mix their imitations with burst of their own calls. Have you sent it to David Stewart of NatureSound?
Greg Dr Greg. P. Clancy Ecologist and Wildlife Guide Coutts Crossing NSW 2460 Australia 0266493153 0429601960