Hi,
Ever since I was little I have heard this bird song at my house and I'd love to know what bird makes it. I managed to get a recording of it.
http://www.stu-art.net.au/audio/BirdCall.wav
I live in St Leonards, on the coast in southern Victoria. Any help would be gratefully appreciated!
Sorry my site has gone down. I've uploaded the sound file here:
http://drop.io/og9tugi/asset/birdcall-wav
Hi Fasty,
The call has a bit of a warbling quality to it, it could be a Grey Butcherbird. It has similarities to the recording on BIBY for Grey Butcherbird and often the same species can have different "dialects" so to speak, for different regions so the calls won't be exactly the same.
Thanks Bourke, that's interesting, it does sound similar but I've never seen a bird like that around where I live. Could it possibly be some sort of wattle-bird? I heard it calling the other day so I raced to the window to see but it stopped before I got there, but I did see a wattle-bird fly from where I thought the sound was coming from.
Definitely not a wattlebird call.
No not a wattlebird, I don't have any other ideas though calls are often tough to i.d. especially from unfamilair regions.
Hi Fasty,
I am no expert on bird IDs but i would 2nd the grey butcher bird idea. I hear pied butcher birds and greys do that kind of warbling cackle thing in the middle of their calls. We have heaps around here. Can I just say that when I first joined this forum it was to ID a BB song, and when Ed or someone told me that it was a BB i was sure I had never seen one around. then I noticed them and now I can see I am surrounded by them wherever I go!! Sometimes it's just a case of "you don't see it till you've seen it the first time!!" if you know what I mean.
Cheers
Birdie
Sunshine Coast Queensland
Thanks for the updates on this! It could definitely be a grey butcherbird. I just checked some videos on youtube of it singing and I have heard very familiar songs to those.