Why can't Aussie birds learn to sing.......
Oct 21st 2011, 3:15 am
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Re: Why can't Aussie birds learn to sing.......
[QUOTE=Alfresco;9687535]When do you all get to watch these birds actually singing? 
They meet for choir practice every Tuesday .
They meet for choir practice every Tuesday .
Oct 21st 2011, 5:06 am
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Hate the cockatoo dawn chorus with a passion but there is one other bloody bird which trumps even that - the koel. It sings its piercing repetitive call all damned night from October through to March. Thank God I have moved back to UK, just waiting for my DH to report the first Koel call and the end of proper nights' sleep.
Oct 21st 2011, 6:40 am
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Oct 21st 2011, 8:11 am
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The magpies always remind me of "the clangers" 
what the hell was that cartoon about anyway????
what the hell was that cartoon about anyway????
Oct 21st 2011, 10:56 am
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If anyone wants to learn bird calls go to http://xeno-canto.org and type in the name of any bird. There should be sound files for most species around the world there.
Once you learn calls (I've every incentive to, being a wildlife enthusiast) you realise just how many species you have living around you.
Just in the last ten minutes alone I have had Rainbow Lorikeet, Fig Parrot, Brown Honeyeater, Koel, Brush Cuckoo, Little Bronze Cuckoo, Pied Imperial Pigeon, Figbird, White-bellied Cuckoo Shrike and the ubiquitous Mynahs all calling outside my study.
Once you learn calls (I've every incentive to, being a wildlife enthusiast) you realise just how many species you have living around you.
Just in the last ten minutes alone I have had Rainbow Lorikeet, Fig Parrot, Brown Honeyeater, Koel, Brush Cuckoo, Little Bronze Cuckoo, Pied Imperial Pigeon, Figbird, White-bellied Cuckoo Shrike and the ubiquitous Mynahs all calling outside my study.
Oct 21st 2011, 12:09 pm
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Oct 21st 2011, 12:37 pm
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Re: Why can't Aussie birds learn to sing.......
Bloody willie wagtails ... We have them nesting near our bedroom window... All frickin night I'm thinking.. Buggerit its getting near getting up time.... That must be the start of the dawn chorus.... But its just them never knowing when to frickin shut the fluck up
Oct 21st 2011, 1:27 pm
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Re: Why can't Aussie birds learn to sing.......
If anyone wants to learn bird calls go to http://xeno-canto.org and type in the name of any bird. There should be sound files for most species around the world there.
Once you learn calls (I've every incentive to, being a wildlife enthusiast) you realise just how many species you have living around you.
Just in the last ten minutes alone I have had Rainbow Lorikeet, Fig Parrot, Brown Honeyeater, Koel, Brush Cuckoo, Little Bronze Cuckoo, Pied Imperial Pigeon, Figbird, White-bellied Cuckoo Shrike and the ubiquitous Mynahs all calling outside my study.
Once you learn calls (I've every incentive to, being a wildlife enthusiast) you realise just how many species you have living around you.
Just in the last ten minutes alone I have had Rainbow Lorikeet, Fig Parrot, Brown Honeyeater, Koel, Brush Cuckoo, Little Bronze Cuckoo, Pied Imperial Pigeon, Figbird, White-bellied Cuckoo Shrike and the ubiquitous Mynahs all calling outside my study.
Having visited FNQ, I agree that the birdlife there is amazing.
NB. I love the call of the Whipbird
Oct 21st 2011, 4:45 pm
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Re: Why can't Aussie birds learn to sing.......
Hate the cockatoo dawn chorus with a passion but there is one other bloody bird which trumps even that - the koel. It sings its piercing repetitive call all damned night from October through to March. Thank God I have moved back to UK, just waiting for my DH to report the first Koel call and the end of proper nights' sleep.
Moved back - for good?
Oct 21st 2011, 5:26 pm
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Oct 21st 2011, 5:30 pm
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I've got half a dozen Rainbow Lorikeets that gather on the back porch to eat the crumbs I chuck out there; beautiful birds and I love watching and listening to them, but they are the most awful bullies! I have Honeyeaters and Butcher Birds which eat out there too, and they are all happy to exist side-by-side. The Lorikeets won't have any of that, and will chase off everyone else, pecking them if necessary till they move on 
Oct 21st 2011, 6:31 pm
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Have to be honest - I never hear all these irritating birds - I am fast asleep - I am a heavy sleeper and could sleep on a chicken's lip.
I quite enjoy the morning glory of..birdsong...I don't even notice half of it and can only imagine what the likes of Quoll have to go through. We live semi-rural yet it doesn't seem to be a cachopony.
Oct 21st 2011, 6:54 pm
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It's hardly surprising, if the people are to be believed then nothing is cheep in Australia.
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Oct 21st 2011, 7:10 pm
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