Avian Visitors

[Newcastle George]

Butcher Bird calls vary, look and listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlAb-ObjIH4

George

[BruceS]

Well what can I say? Absolutely beautiful but I'm not sure I'd be saying that after a few weeks!!

[T1 Terry]

Butcher Bird calls vary, look and listen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlAb-ObjIH4

George

Thanks George, so I sometimes nesting birds aren't Butcher birds then ..... the brown feathers and meat eater beak are similar though ....

the call of these birds is very loud, almost ear piercing when up close .....

T1 Terry

[BernieQ2]

The local Butcher Birds here have a different call than those in the video .
Probably their northern accent.
Bernie.

[bob r]

Sounds much like the ones here George.



Hey Bruce don't take much to get Dot hot then. ☹

Bob

[supersparky]

Just realised after watching those videos that butcher birds have a seagull painted on their beak, same as all magpies do.

[Greynomad]

The local Butcher Birds here have a different call than those in the video .
Probably their northern accent.
Bernie.

Don’t laugh, Bernie.
An Avian specialist at a WA zoo (can’t remember where, but not Perth) told us, when we commented on the different call of WA Magpies, that if we transplanted a Victorian Magpie to WA, they would not be able to communicate! Even the alarm/danger call is different.

[T1 Terry]

The local Butcher Birds here have a different call than those in the video .
Probably their northern accent.
Bernie.

Don’t laugh, Bernie.
An Avian specialist at a WA zoo (can’t remember where, but not Perth) told us, when we commented on the different call of WA Magpies, that if we transplanted a Victorian Magpie to WA, they would not be able to communicate! Even the alarm/danger call is different.

You just have to listen to the way they say that crow call that got Graeme Kennedy a long holiday from the TV networks ..... can you imagine a crow from NZ trying to get by in Australia ... well .... anywhere other than Bondi?

[jon_d]

Never will happen.... who'd name their NZ son Claude? I rest my case.

Ray, have even noticed the maggies down in Port Fairy sound different to the Melb ones.

Not to mention the inner city ones; they tend to has more of a whistle. Possibly due to their missing front teeth.

[supersparky]

There is a family of Stone Curlews living in our street at the moment. This pic is from one of the neighbours front yard. I sometimes see them bedded down in the gutter at night. They dont seem to worried about cats or dogs wandering around.

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