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No.134 Cameron Robbins : Grey Butcherbird Deep beautiful mellow piping; in aggression a staccato rollicking descending shreik. Pizzey No.135 Hollis Taylor : Pied Butcherbird Superb: slow flute like piping of clear high pitched and low mellow notes.Pizzey. No.136 Hilary Kleinig : Australian Magpie Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle (Dennis Glover). Rich and varied carolling has notes ranging from high and clear to deep and mellow. Often others of group join in as a duet or chorus. In alarm, loud, harsh ‘squaark! Morcombe and Stewart No.137 Gyan : Pied Currawong Scallop scallop potato (Sonya) Call is a slow, rather rollicking series of mellow, often gurgling sounds: ‘kurrok, kurrowk’; ‘curra-currow-currowk’; ‘carrow-carrow-currawowk’. In flight gives a distinctive, wailing, raucous, descending ‘kirrair-kirrair-kirrowk’ Morcombe and Stewart No.138 Mary Rapp : Australian Raven High far-carrying, child-like wailing; a series of slow notes with strangled, drawn-out finnish. Quiet croaking. Simpson and Day. No.139 James Greening : Torresian Crow High pitched series of stacatto honkings, can finnish with one or more longer notes. Loud falsetto stutter. Simpson and Day. No.140 Gordon Kerry : Apostlebird Harsh and scratchy like the sound of tearing sandpaper; loud discordant ‘ch-kew, ch-kew’; on being disturbed rough nasal ‘git-out’. Pizzey No.148 Tony Gorman : Mistletoebird Most notes have a glancing splintered quality. Sharp ‘dzee!’ or ‘tsew!’; clear penetrating ‘kinsey-kinsey-kinsey’; ‘wait-a-bit, wait-a-bit, zhipp!’; or ‘swizit, swizit, weet-weet-swizit’; also soft warbling. Pizzey. No.149 Wyatt Moss-Wellington : Tree Martin Dry little ‘drrrt drrrt’ and animated twittering song. Pizzey. No.150 Lamorna : Fairy Martin Distinctive chirrup; also sweet twittering. Simpson and Day. No.151 Louise Nutting : Little Grassbird Mournful whistle of three notes on one level, ‘p-peee-peee’; also a dry scolding rattle. Pizzey No.152 Brian Ritchie : Rufous Songlark Song has a sweet, splintered, almost ventriloquial quality; often begins with a clear loud trill, then develops into full refrain, ‘a-witchy-weedle’, repeated. Pizzey. No.153 James Nightingale : Brown Songlark Strange, metalic, gutteral and far-carrying; hence school childrens’ name ‘skit-scot-a-wheeler’. Pizzey No.66 Leith Phillips : Southern Boobook Morepork Morepork (Maureen). Falsetto ‘yo-yo-yo-yo’; drawn out rising catlike ‘brrrwow’ and monotonously repeated low ‘mor-mor-mor’. Pizzey No.67 Spike Mason : Barn Owl Hoarse thin wavering reedy screech: ‘skee-air!’ Pizzey. No.69 Rob Walker : Tawny Frogmouth Low repeated ‘oom-oom-oom-oom’, slow or quite rapid and repeated up to 40 times; seems to have no clear beginning or end. Pizzey No.70 Annie McKinnon : Australian Owlet-nightjar High pitched slightly weird ‘chirr chirr’, repeated several times. Pizzey. No.44 Dylan Orsborn : Common Bronzewing Oom-oom-oom’ of fugitive but carrying quality, repeated monotonously. No.45 Peter Long : Crested Pigeon Explosive whoop; low coo. Simpson and Day No.46 David Joseph : Squatter Pigeon Rapid falling 3-5 notes; cooing chuckle; rising whoop. Simpson and Day No.47 Allis Maun : Diamond Dove Flute like slow coo-ah coo-coo-ah. Simpson and Day No.48 Zelada Da : Peaceful Dove Carrying 3 note woodle-oo; descending wooorr. Simpson and Day No.49 Arne Hanna : Bar-shouldered Dove ‘Bob Hawke Bob Hawke' Maureen. Double noted, cheery ‘cookaw-cookor’ Also a long bubbling laughing descending ‘cook-aw-cookaw-cookaw-cookaw-‘ Morecombe No.83 Reflected Chop : Speckled Warbler Undulating, cheery mix of clear whistles and more mellow notes. Morcombe and Stewart No.84 Vickie Tran : Weebill Wheet-will’; ‘whit-a-whit’. Lower ‘tizit’. Simpson and Day. No.85 Yilan Tran : Western Gerygone Sweet, rising, falling, fading. Simpson and Day. No.86 Kjell Samkopf : White-throated Gerygone Distinctive falling, tinkling song. Simpson and Day. No.87 David George : Inland Thornbill Lively, sharp ‘tsip-chip-’; ‘loud clear musically whistled ‘chweeeip!’ and deep, mellow tremulously wharbled ‘quor-r-r-r-r-eip’. Morcombe and Stewart No.88 Jose Snook : Chestnut-rumped Thornbill High peevish squeaking: ‘tsee, tsee-tseep, tseep, tseeip’. Morcombe and Stewart No.89 Else Olsen Storesund : Buff-rumped Thornbill Tinkling reel. Simpson and Day. No.90 Nat Grant : Yellow-rumped Thornbill Vivacious merry tinkling with cyclic pattern. Pizzey. No.91 Adam Simmons : Yellow Thornbill Persistent ‘tizz tizz’. Simpson and Day. No.94 Julian Curwin & Steve Elphic : Noisy Friarbird an extraordinary jumble of notes one of which has been interpreted as 4 o'clock’ No Tobacca today (Maureen) MENU