Can you please listen to this bird call and tell me what kind of bird it is? I am so sick of this bird singing its annoying sound outside my window in Melbourne every morning at 6am on the dot. http://kiwi6.com/file/dqf6jkbcw6 Thanks
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Sounds a little like a red wattlebird.
It's a Noisy Friarbird. My wife used to call them monkey birds. :-)
You must have a lot of flowering gums nearby and once the flowers are finished the birds will move on. They are rather ugly looking. I actually love their calls and they start near my place by 0530. However, I don't mind as I am an early riser. Certainly appreciate your disapproval of it if you like to sleep in. Here are two photos, the second one is a recently fledged immature bird:
http://amatteroflight.com/gallery2/d/615-1/Noisy+Friarbird_4840.jpg
http://amatteroflight.com/gallery2/d/1358-1/Noisy-Friarbird_8185.jpg
Windhover,
I was thinking wattlebird as we have the same bird calling in our part of Melbourne each morning, and I have never seen a Noisy Friarbird around here.
Thank you all so much. I sure hope the stupid bird flys far far far far far far away very soon and leaves me and my ears alone at 6am. :)
I am not 100% on distribution of the Noisy Friarbird, but I've never heard any Red Wattlebird call like that. :-) Happy to be corrected on ID by call. I know I've heard this call from a honeyeater and even the overall sound sounds like a NF, but if it ain't then that's OK. :-)
Mea culpa. My mate suggested Little Wattlebird. That's why the call was familiar! It does sound very much like that species. :-) So Wattlebird, yes, Red, no, Little yes.
6am? Not too bad. Expect it to get earlier! ...and louder.
Learn to live with it, Ms 3146 (if that *is* your real name!)
- soakes
soakes
Olinda, Victoria, Australia
.......Oh yey, why don't we cut ALL the trees down, so the birds have NOTHING to sit on, that might stop them!!!!Why don't YOU move into a High-Rise bluddy building? You won't hear ANY birds, only manmade beautiful noises, they will be like music to your ears!!! M-L
(sorry, I always wanted to say this!!!) M-L
M-L
A rather provocative idea I would have thought, 3146. You can probably expect some hostile responses given that most folk on this site are rather pro native birds & vegetation. For myself, could I suggest that rather than poison some trees to get rid of the bird with the "annoying sound" you plant even more local tree species together with heaps of local shrub species. That way you'll likely attract lots more native birds, at least some of which will have much more pleasing "sounds" to you &, as well, will drown out the "annoying sound" you dislike so much.
O gosh, a lot of censorship going on here. :-(
Now Akos, be nice to the other children!!
M-L
I think some people should just simply move to a high-rise apartment in the city with concrete surrounding them so no annoying native animal may disturb their being. LOL
Part of us living in the same areas as animals is sharing our space with them and "putting up" with their noises. I would much rather hear a loud bird call than a lawn mower or power tool and for all we know those noises could be just as annoying for the birds.
Cheers, Owen.
Nicely put, Owen. We do tend to be rather human-centred rather than seeing ourselves as part of the miraculous whole. Making everything bow down to us is leading us into a very awkward place, I believe.
OMG!!!! I know that annoying sound from early morning too. I have only just discovered that Noisy Friars are in my yard so wasn't too sure up until now.
I'm with you on how hard it is to try to sleep through that sound. It usually happens just on dawn right outside our bedroom window.
I've been in Australia for 7 months now and since moving here I have always appreciated the bird life. I love to sit watching new birds which seem far more exotic than those of the UK. But I moved to Ivanhoe, Melbourne a couple of months ago and I now get woken up at 5 every morning by this sound right outside my window. It's the same sound as the one you've recorded although you seem to have missed the hissing/screach sound that fallows it's call. I've seen the bird in question. I'm no bird expert but it's definitely the Little Wattlebird. It's screaching lasts for about an hour every morning and goes pretty much uninterrupted so once it starts there is no getting back to sleep. I like pretty much all birds except this one, I may have to get my hands on a BB gun.
I agree, barry. I think Australian birds are really special & it's really important we learn to live with them rather than against them.
Instead of a BB gun, why not invest in earplugs, barry? Alternatively, have you thought of getting to bed earlier & waking up with that bird's wonderful call? Or isn't that feasible?
There are lot of noisy birds in Australia. Baby magpies outside your window, sulphur crested cockatoos, channel-bill cuckoos, and many more. The worst thing you can do is get annoyed, then you can't get back to sleep. Some people get really annoyed by frogs or cicadas.
If you can just accept the noise you will have a better chance of sleeping, you can't just kill the animals anyway. It is much worse when you never hear any animals.
Good points, Greg. Having a positive attitude towards native birds & all of their characteristics is a good way of sleeping easy. Well, I think it is for me, anyway!
Don't worry guys, I'm not gonna commit birdicide. I'm moving out of that place in a couple of weeks as I'm travelling and only take on short term accomodation. Living in Melbourne, the strange birds are one of the only things that remind me I'm actually in a new country and not just in a different part of Manchester. I particularly like the small parrots that have started appearing on my road in the last few weeks. They're purple, orange, green and blue. They look like a piece of abstract art or like they've been involved in a paintball fight.
I'd actually started to mellow towards the noise in the last few days. It almost reminds me of a cuckoo, albeit a cuckoo on crack. If I wasn't leaving this house I'd have probably just started getting up earlier.
Good luck , where ever you might go, there will be more noisy birds.
Hmmm, one more comment from me, " only strange people find birds strange"
(as for myself, I can do without people, but wouldn't want to be without birds).
M-L
From your description, barry, it seems you have rainbow lorikeets in your neighbourhood. They're probably attracted by some Eucalyptus blossoms.
Good luck with your travels. There's a heap of fascinating birds to be seen.
I have a Little Wattlebird pretty much outside my windows too, since moving here a couple of months ago. I do struggle with the sound, particularly so close to my windows, so early and usually on and off in the afternoon until darkfall. It's the one noise I find difficult amongst the many others I hear.
Does anyone know about the yearly movements of the Little Wattlebird? Is it making so much noise now because it's in prime mating season? Will it move on at points in the year, maybe height of summer or dead of winter? Or will he stay in this one place and 'sing' in this fashion all year round?