Just in case anyone sees one (highly unlikely)
http://www.nt.gov.au/nreta/wildlife/animals/threatened/pdf/birds/grey_curraw ong_cr.pdf
A reminder about Grey Currawongs in the centre (fingers crossed/you never know) Cas
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Thanks Cas.
Not quite Grey, but I did hear a Pied Currawong while sitting drinking a beer in the courtyard of the Aurora Alice Springs Hotel. Something that seemed immediately odd, considering the nearest population was well over a thousand miles away. It turned out to be a recording, played over the hotels internal speakers. They were randomly scrolling through Steve Parish’s Australiana music CDs (mostly new age elevator music, the sort you buy in an airport newsagent). The Pied Currawong recording came from Australian Birds Calls.
It was followed by Pied Butcherbird. Hearing this call was feasible (they are common around Alice), although the bird on the CDs was very different to centralian Pied Butcherbird; their call seems to finish with the last 3 notes of the ABC theme music.
Cheers,
Tim