If anyone is wondering if they have heard a Golden Whistler I thought I'd post this link here so you can check as it has a variety of calls from them on it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOfp7J8RO10
Golden whistler call for ID purposes
Mon, 20/09/2010 - 06:24
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birdie
Golden whistler call for ID purposes
Hey birdie. Don't have my books with me and was just wondering if you get many golden whistlers up your way. Sometimes bushbirdnerd and I refer to them as chooks because you can't walk into the bush down here without seeing one!!
Rufous whistlers are a bit more sought after and we are also doing a bit of research to see if they cross over territories with the golden whistlers at all. (research simply means bushwalking and looking at birds)
Do you get Mangrove whistlers where you are, or are they further north?
Hi Berldo... Golden Whistlers are new to me but from what i am seeing now that I have found them, there are a few around in the particular rainforest that I go to nearby my home. Very hard to spot them though, and much easier to hear them. I have been through the same patch of forest on quite a few occasions but have only heard them recently. the call was so noticeable that it made me want to investigate further. Maybe they are just more vocal in mating season, I really don't know as I am still very much a novice with anything involving species info etc I don't think we get the MGW down this way.
CHOOKS!!!!! well if they are chooks then I could take up poultry farming!!! LMAO
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Berldo, regarding the Rufuous Whistler / Golden Whistler distribution overlap - I'm in Brisbane (so I'm south of Birdie) and I've seen Rufous Whistlers in a few bush areas in the general area. I've seen a Golden Whistler only once. In the same location as the Golden Whistler, I saw a female Rufuous Whistler. So I think they can be found together, but I have found the RWs to be more common than the GWs.
I think Mangrove Whistlers are further north of Birdie.
I definitely get both here near bathurst. At the moment only the rufous but the golden will probably turn up later in the season. I think they move around a fair bit. I don't see them in winter, they must go to warmer climes.
Thanks for the link, birdie.
I have often heard two of those particular calls and thought them similar to either a Whipbird or Leeuwin's Honeyeater, but wasn't quite sure what it was. Now I'll know in future. :)
Cheers
Tim
Brisbane
There was a Leeuwin's in there that accompanied the photo of the Leeuwin... I suppose you realised that anyway.
I think I could become as excited about sound recording as I am photography in the long run. Either way it would involve plenty of $$$ to do it properly .
The idea of making a production and putting them together really does it for me ..... maybe one day
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Oops... no I didn't pay that much attention - was listening while looking at something else.
The Leeuwin's must vary a bit in their speed - I identify them more with the clear, sharp, staccato call than if it's slightly slower.
Cheers
Tim
Brisbane
Actually Timmo, my experience is that they vary the speeds and the pitch and the continuity of their calls on a regular basis.
they are still quite identifiable though as the leeuwins.
Sunshine Coast Queensland
I wouldn't go that far Berldo as to call them chooks, but I think they're more common than some people think. I heard one the other day, first one for a few months so hopefully they'll be back in numbers soon. As far as overlap- last December I was walking through the western, drier part of the Dandenongs and heard and saw a golden whistler. I also heard a call I didn't recognise about fifty metres up the way so I investigated this call and blow me down it was a rufous whistler, so there is definitely overlap. Interesting note, about 1 km west of where I was- you'd find suburbia/schlerophyll foothills forest, a couple of hundred metres east- you'd find wetter schlerophyll mountain forests, so there was also a change in forest types.
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