Who's that tweeter?

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432hz
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Who's that tweeter?

Bird recorded in maplteton national park amongst tall gums, any ideas?  Seemed to be a fairly small bird ( smaller than magpie), with a white under belly, maybe brown wings, it was high up in the trees.

The recordings are below,

https://soundcloud.com/dig-ezy/bird

https://soundcloud.com/dig-ezy/2018-03-22-0526a

432hz
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Any takers?

Monica
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Hi all, this from the wonderful Sean Dooley (editor of Australian Birdlife magazine):

The second bird is Scarlet Honeyeater.

The first recording has what I think might be the squeaking of Scarlet Honeyeater- the same tone as the song in the second one, just a single peeping version. But there is also a chirring of what I think might be a Brown Thornbill in the central section of the first recording too. (It might be a scolding Scarlet Honyeater call but it sounds a lot like Brown Thornbill to me!)

432hz
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The bird I’m interested in is the ‘wacka woo wup’ not the others

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My only guess would be a noisy friarbird or some sort of wattlebird/

432hz
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Yes noisy friar bird, thanks☺️

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