Hello Peter,
Just to pick up on your comment that “I’m not sure where Phil’s idea of ‘very different Calls’ comes from”. Until I’d spent some time at O’Reillys in the rainforest I would have agreed with Phil – the calls of Northern Shrike Tits do sound different to Eastern Shrike-tits but now that I have had more experience I would modify that statement to ……sound different to most Eastern Shrike-tits.
In my experience, the rainforest inhabiting birds at O’Reillys (a very odd habitat for a Shrike-tit) do have in their repertoire calls that are almost identical to the northern Shrike-tits at Drysdale River. I’ve heard and recorded lots of Eastern Shrike-tits and haven’t heard “northern” type calls anywhere but at O’Reillys. I would be interested to know where you’ve heard these calls in the east – they must surely occur elsewhere because you are obviously familiar with them. Unfortunately we know so little about the entire repertoire of all but a few of our native birds in Australia that it’s downright embarrassing.
For those who are interested in the different Shrike-tit calls, my website has a good selection where they can be compared easily .
Cheers
Graeme Chapman ===============================
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