Hi all,
I hope you can identify a strange bird call I’ve been hearing. It’s woken me up for the last few nights around 4am and I’ve never heard anything like it before. After A LOT of googling, I’ve found it to be identical to the black capped chickadee’s “fee-bee” call. However, I live on Sydney’s lower north shore and everything online about the chickadee seems to indicate they only live in North America? Is there a bird in Australia that has a call that sounds exactly like this? I’m even wondering if someone could have had it as a pet and it escaped?
Thanks in advance!
Brenna
Not familiar with chickadee's, but I'll suggest a nocturnal bird: Australian Boobook .
Australian Boobook call
The Black-capped Chickadee's fee-bee call is remarkably similar to a Russet-tailed Thrush call, but Russet-tailed is not normally found south of Newcastle. Perhaps your bird is a Bassian Thrush, there is some similarity in the call tone. Both of the Thrush's do often call very early, before sunrise.