Hi All,
Have just finished my part of the QUT sensor work and found an interesting call at 21.18hrs on 15 October 2010 at the SERF site in Samford, SE Qld. It was very wet at the time and there are a lot of insect and frog noise in the background but the call is quite distinct and repeated up to ten times. I initially thought it might be Masked Owl but Julie Sarna (who is a colleague of mine on the project) alerted me to the possibility that it might actually be a Powerful Owl. in the past I have heard this species make a shrill-chatter in daytime but can’t remember if is similar to the one recorded. See http://www.aviceda.org/audio/?p=208
Any comment very welcome.
Tom
G’day Pat,
One night at my place in the bush near Bellingen in northern NSW I heard a similar call to the one you describe. I transcribed it as yee-o, yee-o, yee-o – rich, swelling and powerful, delivered by (I found it with a spotlight) a Boobook owl. The sound was COMPLETELY different from the usual Boobook call. This was in autumn – March or April – and my guess is that the bird was a migrant: Boobooks are generally absent from the bush where I live, much rarer than Powerfuls, Maskeds or Sootys. Perhaps the call you heard was also a Boobook?
Brian
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It sounds too scratchy for a Lewin’s Rail to me. It also sounds superficially like a Common Blackbird to me, but it’s way too scratchy for that too.
Peter Shute
G’day Tom and Birding Aus,
I have heard the Common Green Treefrog, Litoria caerulea, make a very similar sound when threatened (for instance by a Black Rat).
Brian
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Hi All,
Have just finished my part of the QUT sensor work and found an interesting call at 21.18hrs on 15 October 2010 at the SERF site in Samford, SE Qld. It was very wet at the time and there are a lot of insect and frog noise in the background but the call is quite distinct and repeated up to ten times. I initially thought it might be Masked Owl but Julie Sarna (who is a colleague of mine on the project) alerted me to the possibility that it might actually be a Powerful Owl. in the past I have heard this species make a shrill-chatter in daytime but can’t remember if is similar to the one recorded. See http://www.aviceda.org/audio/?p=208
Any comment very welcome.
Tom
Tom
That’s not a Lewins Rail or something similar is it?
Greg Little