Emu distress call

At Little Desert on the weekend, we found a young Emu calling. It appeared to be unable to find the family group, and the call it made was a lot like a Brush Cuckoo (the repeated pee-eeeep call) to the extent that I thought that’s what it was. Unfortunately we didn’t get a recording of it. Has anyone else heard this call? I’m wondering in what circumstances the call is made. The bird was about 50cm from ground to shoulder, still in striped plumage. I don’t know how old that makes it. Peter Shute =============================== To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message: unsubscribe (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au http://birding-aus.org ===============================