Please who makes a flute like call?

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Hanna
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Please who makes a flute like call?

I'm in Perth WA. I hear a bird song that sounds very similar to a Pied Butcherbird but it is a much higher note.

A series of long notes. It sounds like someone whistling a long note.

It doesn't have trill like a pied butcherbird and magpie, it is very much like a person whistling at a very high key.

Can anyone help me identify the bird, please!

sue818
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I confess to being terrible with sounds but have you considered a Western (Golden) Whistler?

Hanna
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Thank you Sue, I finaly figured that it was Western Gerygone (meaning "echos of a child", "child of song" or "born of sound" in Greek).

I had to listen to heaps of audio files. They surely have an apt name.

sue818
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Well done, so pleased you found an answer.

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