153 Musicians 3

Emu Booming, drumming and grunting. Booming is created in an inflatable neck sac, and can be heard up to 2 km away.

Stubble Quail Clear, ringing ‘cheery-wit’ and ‘too-too-weep’, last note higher, louder, given repeatedly.

Brown Quail Double noted, ascending whistle: ‘pi-pieer’ or ‘tu-wieep’. Sharp chirp in alarm.

White-faced Heron Various croaking grunting sounds: ‘urrk-urrk-urrk’ ‘arrrgh arrrgh arrrgh’ ‘graaow’ ‘urgk-urg-urgh’.

White-necked Heron Aloud single or double croak in alarm or flight: ‘argh, aarrgh’. At nest a deep loud ‘oomph!’ a raucous cackle at changeover.

Great Egret A gutteral rattling croak. Pizzey

Nankeen Night Heron Various harsh and mosly deep croaks. The alarm is a hoarse but not deep croak, ‘ow-uk’ or ‘qwu-ok’; at roost and nest a more abrupt, nasal ‘auk-auk-ak’.

Glossy Ibis Call in flight is an occasional deep grunted croak; if startled gives loud hoarse croaks.

Australian White Ibis A deep grunted ‘urrrk’; in flocks and colonies deep croaked and grunted honkings.

Straw-necked Ibis Loud croaks when itending to fly or alarmed and repeatedly on take off. When joining flock anounces arival with rapid series of croaks.

Yellow-billed Spoonbill Usually silent but in threat displays gives soft nasal coughs or grunts, makes clattering sounds with the bill.

Black-necked Stork (Jabiru) Clacks the bill; somtimes gives gutteral grunts usually in threat or dancing displays.

Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Liquid gurgling notes. ‘Give-the-boy-a-go’ repeated ending in a single abrupt note. Pizzey

Striped Honeyeater Atractive mellow and rolling. ‘Free-wheat-peeler-peeler’ rising then falling. Pizzey

Noisy Friarbird an extraordinary jumble of notes one of which has been interpreted as 4 o'clock’ No Tobacca today (Maureen)

Little Friarbird Up here Maureen, up here Maureen’ Maureen. ‘Rackety crook-shank’…raucous and guttural croaking. Morcombe and Stewart

Blue-faced Honeyeater Penetrating querulous ‘woik, woik, woik’ or ‘queeet, queet’ each note rising at end. Pizzey

Noisy Miner High-pitched penetrating complaining ‘yoi-yoi-yoi-yoi’ rising at end peeishly. Pizzey

Yellow-throated Miner Sharp nasal ‘kiek-kiek-kierk’, ‘kweek-kewk’ or ‘kieerk-kieerk’. Morcombe and Stewart

Singing Honeyeater Scratchy peevish ‘scree scree’; dry ‘prrit prrit prrit’; alarm call, ‘crik-crikit-crikit-crickit’, accelerating into running almost machinegun-like note. Pizzey

White-eared Honeyeater Jaring descending ‘chung-chung-chung’, mellow ‘beer-brick, beer-brick’. Pizzey.

Grey-fronted Honeyeater ‘It-wirt, wirt, wirt, wirt’; single sharp note ‘boink’ Pizzey.

Fuscous Honeyeater Arig-arig-a-taw-taw’; ‘guinea-a-week’; deep metalic rather twanging ‘clitchit-clee-you, clitchit-clee-you’ repeated. Pizzey.

White-plumed Honeyeater Brisk ‘chickowee’ or ‘chickabiddey’; alarm call a rapid high-pitched strident trill like alarm-clock. Pizzey

Black-chinned Honeyeater Curious high-pitched grating, croaking notes, developed into song. Pizzey.

Brown Honeyeater Song remarkably strong sweet and varied ‘sweet-sweet-quarty-quarty’.Pizzey.

Jacky Winter Peter Peter Peter (Maureen) Clear far-carrying, ringing whistling call, a rapid ‘chwit-chwit-chwit-queeter- queeter-queeter’, ‘ slower ‘cheweet, cheweet’. Morcombe and Stewart.

Red-capped Robin Dry but pretty insect-like trill, sharp single or double ‘tick’ like pebbles being struck together. Pizzey.

Hooded Robin YAP-yap-yap-yap-yap-yap’, yaps becoming shorter. Pizzey.

Grey-crowned Babbler Clear ‘yahoo’ or brisk ‘gowahee, gowahee, gowahee’, rather like braying of a distant donkey. Incessant fussy chatterings. Pizzey.

Unidentified Babbler – White- Browed? Extraordinary variety of falsetto chattering miowing notes. Pizzey

Varied Sittella Song described as ‘tzir, zit-zit, tzir-zit- zat-zit’ Pizzey.

Leaden Flycatcher Deep, slightly harsh, guttural ‘zhirrp’; also strident , farcarying ‘see-hear, see-hear, see-hear’. Pizzey

Restless Flycatcher A rasping ‘zhap-zhapzhapzhapzhap; a curious sustained grinding churring; a clear repeated whistle each phrase rising at the end like a man whistling a dog. Pizzey.

Magpie-Lark Pairs perform wing lifting duets- antiphonal song. ‘Tee-hee, pee-o-wee, pee-o-wit’. Pizzey, Simpson and Day

Grey Fantail Cyclic tinkling song, ending with a strong high note. Warning ‘dik!’. Simpson and Day

Willie Wagtail "Sweet pretty creature" chitji chitji (ngaanyatjarra)

Spangled Drongo Rasping, hissing, crackling. Strange metalic notes, some like a wire-fence being twanged. Simpson and Day, Pizzey.