Ive been a member for some time now and used this site to help identify birds inthe The Pines Flora And Fauna Reserve. PFFR
In the last couple of months ( maybe ) I ve been woken by a bird call I cant identify from varius sources on the net.
This morning I jumped up and took a video.. No pix just the sound because I cant spot the birds location. There is another bird with the same call, Id say about 200m away that answers or claims its territory.
Where can I send the sound clip to get identification? The file is about 2mb and lasts abaout 45 secs. Ihave it uploaded to drop box if anyone can help.
Ive listened to the 40 most common and its not one of those. The calling starts just as dawn is starting to break about 5:30 and goes silent at full dawn and its LOUD. It s not one of the common birds ( around here) like magpie .
Its has 3 parts with a tone not too disimilar to a bellbird but different of course. Its what would call a warble ticka ticka ticka ----- tick tick tick , ticka ticka ticka ----- tick tick tick then a third part simlar to the first part but longer ticka ticcka ticka ticka ticka ticka ticka
Could you get us a link to the recording if dropbox allows it, otherwise try getting a link by uploading to youtube of xeno-canto
Ryu
Canberra
Aiming for DSLR-quality shots with a bridge camera
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bmsxp4i1r8aaxkv/Bird%20call.m4v?dl=0
Hope fully that will work thanks
John
Thanks for the link. I'm not certain, but I would be inclined to suggest noisy miner. Hopefully some other members can shed a bit more light on it, it may help if you move this topic to the identifications section of the forum
Ryu
Canberra
Aiming for DSLR-quality shots with a bridge camera
We have LOTS and I mean Lots of Noisy Miners here and Ive never heard this call until the last couple of months. Ive lived here since 1992 *shrug*
John
I agree with Noisy Miner.
I remain unconvinced because it is so different to sounds recorded elsewhere by other folk.
Ive never heard it before even though we have had Noisy miners around here since we moved in , in 1992, the tonal quality is totally different to the usual screech sounds one hears.
They have been breeding here and presumably mating around here , chicks have left their nests and sit up in the peppermint gum chirping away to be fed and still I have never heard this sound until a couple of months ago
*shrug* ?
sound is here https://www.dropbox.com/s/bmsxp4i1r8aaxkv/Bird%20call.m4v?dl=0
hello, I am not good with sounds but that sounds Noisy Miner to me, if you listen to the Morecombe's app it sounds similar to the Noisy Miner 'song at daylight'
Peter
this from info@mdahlem.net.
I have decompressed it without problems. Please
give me some time to fiddle around with it. My
first impression is that this is indeed a Noisy Miner,
possibly a first light call that I have not heard myself
yet.
Some/many? species have calls that they use
only at first light, for maybe up to 30 minutes, and
then not again for the rest of the day (also not all
year round!). I will get back to you on this some
time soon, maybe not tonight.
There 1 or 2 Noisy Miner recordings on xeno-canto.com that are pretty close to your recording. Slightly different in pitch but close enough, I'd say. Maybe there is a new Noisy Miner in your vicinity with a unique voice.
LM
sorry, it is http://www.xeno-canto.org/species/Manorina-melanocephala
The 6th recording from the bottom of the list titled 'Moorooka, calls made at dawn'.
LM