Field Recording of a quiet and isolated area located in Western Australia Outback (Karara Rangeland Park). I am not expert, but I think that you can hear these birds: Australian Magpie, Pied Butcherbird.
I am sorry that the sound quality is a bit noisy, I had to crank the gain almost all the way up. Recorded with Zoom H2
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Comments
9 months ago
I think the first distant screeches are red-tailed black cockatoos, not magpies. There's also a magpie-lark/peewee calling throughout. The shorter sounds aren't all that uncommon for a butcherbird, perhaps they didn't feel like performing a full song.
3 years, 9 months ago
Nice !! Bravo and thanks
4 years, 9 months ago
Hi BirdFeeder, thanks for your comment with so good explanations and references.
Thanks for sharing the work of Hollis Taylor, indeed very inspiring. I´ll check all these "bird scores" carefuly, they´re reallyu beautiful. I hope to visit the Australian Outback in the future, and in the next occassion I will bring better sound equipment. cheers
4 years, 9 months ago
Thanks for the recording, Edu. You were lucky to hear that Pied BB, they are widespread across Oz, but they like big back-yards, and so seem a bit thin on the ground.
You are right, in that your very first distant sounds are those of a young Magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen) putting the hard word on it's oldies for >more food more food<.
But all the rest of the much closer bird's songs are those of the Pied Butcherbird (Cracticus nidrogularis, an ugly name for a glorious songster). Your snippets are unusual (to me) for being very short. The style of their music around Brisbane is of long-held very pure flute-like notes usually finishing with harmonic contrasts, a short pause, then a different harmonic set, but loosely related to the first phrase.
We in Oz have a composer, Hollis Taylor, who makes an annual trip to The Centre. I think the spot is NE from Ularu (The Rock) to listen to, record, and more recently to play an instrument to accompany probably one specific bird. That bird loves to sing at night - almost all night. Around seven hours straight the longest recorded, and she states that it did NOT repeat ONE phrasing. She has written pieces that attempt to mimic the bird, or at least try to encourage eventual duets. See < https://www.hollistaylor.com/ewExternalFiles/Composers%20appropriation.pdf > for an in-depth dive into the genre.
I didn’t recognise the shrill trill just at the end of your recording, but I’m from the other side of the continent, where we too enjoy the Pied’s orchestral works when *we are lucky.
Thanks again.
