Can anybody tell me whether both the male & female Wonga Pigeon call, or only the male?
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Thanks Greg. We have a pair that are in the area all year round. We’ve read that they’re monogamous, but recently we often hear 2 birds calling at the same time, so were trying to work out whether it was our pair calling to each other, or another male trying to attract the female away?
Peter & Jenny Mt Cooroora Qld
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Another aspect of Wonga Pigeon calling:
Based in Imbil (Mary Valley, south of Gympie, Q.) in the 1950s and a Forestry colleague told me that if you heard a Wonga, you could call it up by whistling their call – provided the bird was on the ground. Whistle the call and mostly it would walk towards you. But if it was perched in a tree, you could whistle as long as you liked and it wouldn’t come.
Don’t know if he was right. I never tried. But he may have been: he had a vested interested so to speak: to shoot Wongas for the pot. Illegal and reprehensible? I suppose so. But pales into insignificance compared to the action of the Forestry Department in destroying thousands of acres of rainforest to plant Hoop Pine?
Cheers
Syd
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Hi Peter,
HANZAB states with respect to advertising call “Given by both sexes (Goodwin); female seldom utters more than five notes in series.”
Greg Clancy Ecologist Coutts Crossing NSW http://www.birdrangers.com