night parrot on brighton downs

As Graeme has suggested … if you hear one, and you are vaguely attuned to
bird calls, you’ll know.
I believe I’ve heard the NP in breakaway/spinifex country SE of Cloncurry
in NW Qld. The call has stuck in my head these last few years, and it’s
much as has been described.

… *Thanks to Young’s 2013 recordings, scientists knew that the night
parrots have a two-syllable call, a cadence described by Murphy as roughly:
“ding-ding.” But the parrot they tracked roosted with another bird that had
a three-syllable call: “ding de-ding.”* …

>* On 15 May 2016, at 12:18 PM, Graeme Chapman *
>* < naturalight@graemechapman.com.au < naturalight@graemechapman.com.au>> wrote:*

> Make the sound available by all means. If you hear it you’ll know anyway
– it sounds

++++++++++++
Dr Lawrie Conole
Tylden Vic 3444
Australia

lconole [at] gmail.com



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