Australian Bird Calls:
Victoria - Temperate South-East
The temperate forests of south-eastern Australia covered by this CD extend from the Shoalhaven River (Nowra) to west of Melbourne and include the Great Dividing Range. The amazing songs of birds such as Superb Lyrebird, Laughing Kookaburra, Rufous Scrub-bird, Eastern Whipbird, Olive Whistler, Satin Flycatcher, Flame Robin and Australian Magpie are featured. Other more difficult to see species include Blue-winged Parrot, Latham’s Snipe, Powerful Owl, Rufous Bristlebird, Pilotbird, Southern Emu-wren, Crested Shrike-tit and Bassian Thrush. Calls of coastal species such as Little Penguin, Short-tailed Shearwater and Silver Gull are included. Where possible, a variety of calls of each species are presented. This allows the listener to become aware of the repertoire of sounds many of the birds possess, particularly songbirds.
This album has no music or spoken commentary. The natural calls of the birds of this region can be appreciated both as a source of pleasant sounds, or as a well documented reference library, particularly those which are difficult to observe. A list of the species, with call description and behaviour notes, can be found inside the cover. For those people with a particular interest in any of the calls, further information can be obtained from the author. This is another CD in the Australian Bird Call series and contains calls of 79 species.
Birdlife Australia, the largest bird organisation in the country, endorses and recommends this CD to anybody interested in enjoying and knowing the calls of many of Australia's wonderful birds found in this region of south-eastern Australia.
Total Length: 72 minutes 58 seconds
List of Contents
1 Stubble Quail Coturnix pectoralis
2 Musk Duck Biziura lobata
3 Australian Wood Duck Chenonetta jubata
4 Australasian Grebe Tachybaptus novaehollandiae
5 Spotted Dove Streptopelia chinensis (introduced)
6 Tawny Frogmouth Podargus strigoides
7 Short-tailed Shearwater Ardenna tenuirostris
8 Little Penguin Eudyptula minor
9 White-faced Heron Egretta novaehollandiae
10 Australian White Ibis Threskiornis molucca
11 Black-shouldered Kite Elanus axillaris
12 Masked Lapwing Vanellus miles
13 Latham’s Snipe Gallinago hardwickii
14 Silver Gull Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae
15 Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo Calyptorhynchus funereus
16 Gang-gang Cockatoo Callocephalon fimbriatum
17 Long-billed Corella Cacatua tenuirostris
18 Musk Lorikeet Glossopsitta concinna
19 Crimson Rosella Platycercus elegans
20 Blue-winged Parrot Neophema chrysostoma
21 Shining Bronze-Cuckoo Chalcites lucidus
22 Fan-tailed Cuckoo Cacomantis flabelliformis
23 Powerful Owl Ninox strenua
24 Southern Boobook Ninox novaeseelandiae
25 Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae
26 Sacred Kingfisher Todiramphus sanctus
27 Superb Lyrebird Menura novaehollandiae
28 White-throated Treecreeper Cormobates leucophaea
29 Brown Treecreeper Climacteris picumnus
30 Superb Fairywren Malurus cyaneus
31 Southern Emu-wren Stipiturus malachurus
32 Rufous Bristlebird Dasyornis broadbenti
33 Pilotbird Pycnoptilus floccosus
34 White-browed Scrubwren Sericornis frontalis
35 Striated Fieldwren Calamanthus fuliginosus
36 Yellow-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza chrysorrhoa
37 Buff-rumped Thornbill Acanthiza reguloides
38 Brown Thornbill Acanthiza pusilla
39 Spotted Pardalote Pardalotus punctatus
40 Striated Pardalote Pardalotus striatus
41 Eastern Spinebill Acanthorhynchus tenuirostris
42 Yellow-faced Honeyeater Lichenostomus chrysops
43 White-eared Honeyeater Lichenostomus leucotis
44 Yellow-tufted Honeyeater Lichenostomus melanops
45 White-plumed Honeyeater Lichenostomus penicilllatus
46 Bell Miner Manorina melanophrys
47 Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala
48 Red Wattlebird Anthochaera carunculata
49 White-fronted Chat Epthianura albifrons
50 Crescent Honeyeater Phylidonyris pyrrhopterus
51 New Holland Honeyeater Phylidonyris novaehollandiae
52 Brown-headed Honeyeater Melithreptus brevirostris
53 White-naped Honeyeater Melithreptus lunatus
54 Eastern Whipbird Psophodes olivaceus
55 Black-faced Cuckoo-shrike Coracina novaehollandiae
56 Crested Shrike-tit Falcunculus frontatus
57 Olive Whistler Pachycephala olivacea
58 Golden Whistler Pachycephala pectoralis
59 Rufous Whistler Pachycephala rufiventris
60 Grey Shrike-thrush Colluricincla harmonica
61 Dusky Woodswallow Artamus cyanopterus
62 Grey Butcherbird Cracticus torquatus
63 Australian Magpie Cracticus tibicen
64 Pied Currawong Strepera graculina
65 Grey Currawong Strepera versicolor
66 Grey Fantail Rhipidura albiscapa
67 Willie Wagtail Rhipidura leucophrys
68 Australian Raven Corvus coronoides
69 Little Raven Corvus mellori
70 Satin Flycatcher Miagra cyanoleuca
71 Jacky Winter Microeca fascinans
72 Scarlet Robin Petroica boodang
73 Flame Robin Petroica phoenicia
74 Eastern Yellow Robin Eopsaltria australis
75 Eurasian Skylark Alauda arvensis (introduced)
76 Silvereye Zosterops lateralis
77 Bassian Thrush Zoothera lunulata
78 Common Blackbird Turdus merula (introduced)
79 Red-browed Finch Neochmia temporalis