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This call was recently sent to me by a friend in Western Australia, any ideas?

This Sunday morning I awoke early and decided to ‘create’ some ‘soundscapes’ of the dawn-chorus at Morris St, Dayboro, SE Queensland, there was little human-interference and surprisingly few dogs barking. I made the first using a Zoom F1 recorder and XYH-6 Microphone capsule (Two Matched Unidirectional Microphones)  Currently the figtree in the backyard is heavy with fruit and several exotic-shrubs are heavy with blossom, making the area a magnet for ‘frugivores’ such as Barred Cuckooshrike and Australasian Figbirds and nectar-eaters like Little Wattlebirds and Lewin’s Honeyeaters. Unfortunately due to size-constraints I’ve only ‘uploaded’ converted (and slightly-edited) mp3 file-formats.

 

 

As I was trying to test various microphones I also made another ‘soundscape’ with the same recorder (Zoom F1) and an SSH-6 Stereo Shotgun Microphone but was a little disappointed with the ‘clarity’ obtained. Barred Cuckooshrikes can be heard, and several male Leaden Flycatchers were competing.

 

Recently, I discovered some interesting new free music-software called “Sonic Visualiser” and wondered if it could be a useful-tool in the bioacoustic field. I haven’t really had time to ‘play’ with it but will pursue it further in the future.

Please listen to the soundscapes and let me know what species you can hear. I’ve found around 30 so far.

 

1. 1. 1. 1. 1. Lewin’s Honeyeater
            2. Spotted Dove
            3. Grey Butcherbird
            4. Barred Cuckooshrike
            5. Scaly-breasted Lorikeet
            6. Yellow-faced Honeyeater
            7. Australian King-parrot
            8. Sacred Kingfisher
            9. Little Wattlebird
            10. Rainbow Lorikeet
            11. Magpie-lark
            12. Australasian Figbird
            13. Restless Flycatcher
            14. Sulphur-crested Cockatoo
            15. Noisy Miner
            16. Welcome Swallow
            17. Olive-backed Oriole
            18. Pied Butcherbird
            19. Leaden Flycatcher
            20. Domestic Chicken
            21. Torresian Crow
            22. Scarlet Myzomela
            23. Long-billed Corella
            24. Crested Pigeon
            25. Willie Wagtail
            26. Bell Miner
            27. Spangled Drongo
            28. Channel-billed Cuckoo
            29. Grey Shrike-thrush
            30. White-bellied Cuckooshrike

Bird-activity is ‘hotting-up’ in South-east Queensland and so I decided to record some local soundscapes for future reference.

These two were both recorded at the southern corner of Hillview Reserve near Dayboro, try and see how many species you can identify. (hint: I’ve found 2 easy ones and ‘annotated’ part of the spectrogram)

Note: the first is 42 minutes long, second around 10 minutes.

Ogg format/Higher quality conversion

Mp3 format/Lower quality conversion

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Have a listen to these three Golden Whistlers having an ‘argument’ (2 males and a female)

Ogg format/Higher quality conversion

Mp3 format/Lower quality conversion