Khristos Nizamis
Recordings 5
Species 4
Unique Species 0
Recording Time 16:11
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Singing Honeyeater (Gavicalis virescens) 1:23 Khristos Nizamis 2019-06-17 02:00 Australia Hayborough, City of Victor Harbor, South Australia 10 call
The honeyeaters are common and numerous in a narrow strip of low bushy vegetation that runs along the coast between the ocean shore and the seaside residential area. A heritage railway line, for an occasional local steam train, also runs through this green strip. A number of birds were hunting insects at the time. In the absence of trees, presumably, they often perched atop long-abandoned electricity poles, and would launch from their perches to snap at insects in mid-air.
The recording comprises several calls recorded within the same area, but not all by the same individual. The sound of the ocean waves is distinctly present (hence the 'B' rating), but the bird calls are relatively clear.
bird-seen:yes
playback-used:no
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Grey Currawong (Strepera versicolor) 0:40 Khristos Nizamis 2019-04-27 06:00 Australia Montacute, Adelaide Hills Council, South Australia 260 alarm call, call
Two grey currawongs have a midair altercation (both can be heard calling from 0:00 to 0:16); one of them (lower pitched call) returns to the treetops of the gum trees, the other flies off over the valley along the line of Sixth Creek, calling out loudly as it flies away. (A different, third currawong, with same pitched voice as the one flying off, calls out once at at 0:31.)
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Grey Shrikethrush (Colluricincla harmonica) 6:05 Khristos Nizamis 2018-12-12 05:30 Australia Deep Creek Conservation Park, Fleurieu Peninsula, South Australia 140 Call-and-answer, call
bird-seen:no
White-winged Chough (Corcorax melanorhamphos) 1:41 Khristos Nizamis 2018-01-08 12:00 Australia Mt Bold, Dorset Vale, Adelaide Hills Council, South Australia 400 alarm call, call
A small group of choughs in a gum tree. They would only vocalise when I walked, making noise on the dry bark, leaves and twigs layering the ground beneath the trees (hence the crunching and rustling sounds at the beginning of the recording).
(?) Identity unknown 6:22 Khristos Nizamis 2019-05-05 03:30 Australia Montacute Conservation Park, Adelaide Hills, South Australia 280 alarm call, begging call, call, juvenile
The sound file comprises seven chronologically-ordered excerpts of varying length from a continuous recording session made from around 02:00 to 07:00. All of the excerpts are from before first light (nautical twilight 05:57). It was new moon, at the floor of a dry gum forest valley, near a dry creek bed; very dark; cold, but not near dew point; very calm; clear sky, but with some mist in the valley.
The species in question is heard, with variations in vocalisation, and sometimes with possible interaction with another or other members of the same species, in all of the seven excerpts (always at centre-left of the stereo image). The creature (which sounds very bird-like) has a vocalisation ranging in frequency a little lower than the constant croaking of the toadlets, and a little higher than the calls of the Boobook Owl in the third extract (2:59). These calls are all clearly distinguishable in a spectrogram.
In the first two excerpts (from 0:00 and 0:32), the vocalisation of the creature in question is a quiet, soft, two-part 'up-down' call with a 'begging' quality. (Also, a single call from an Owlet Nightjar at 0:33 has already been kindly pointed out.)
In the third (1:13), the vocalisations become more complex, rather 'chattery', perhaps even 'distressed'; and there may well be another creature of the same species also present at the same location.
In the fourth (2:59), there more surely seems to be interaction between two individuals with similar vocalisations, the original one (perhaps a juvenile?) and another with a more complex vocalisation (perhaps an adult?). (Also one single call at 3:42 from a different bird, from another location (centre of stereo image).)
In the fifth (4:44), we briefly hear what seems to be the second individual on its own, with a soft, almost 'squawking' vocalisation.
In the sixth (4:59), we hear the 'pleading' call again; the second individual also seems to be present; and at 5:17 another bird (also to be identified) calls out (perhaps in alarm, as a koala clambers about), but that bird may be quite unrelated to the species in question; it was included, just in case it might be helpful. (Note also the repeated 'hooting' or 'mooing' one-note call, lower in frequency, running from 5:17 to 5:35.)
Finally, in the seventh excerpt (5:59), the 'pleading' call continues, overlaid with another small 'squawk' from what seems to be the second individual; and then, at 6:09, some interesting calls, which seem to be made by the same bird that called out at 5:17.
Mystery recording. See the forum.