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Grey Butcherbird Deep beautiful mellow piping; in aggression a staccato rollicking descending shreik. Pizzey

Pied Butcherbird Superb: slow flute like piping of clear high pitched and low mellow notes.Pizzey.

Australian Magpie Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle (Dennis Glover). Rich and varied carolling has notes ranging from high and clear to deep and mellow. Often others of group join in as a duet or chorus. In alarm, loud, harsh ‘squaark! Morcombe and Stewart

Pied Currawong Scallop scallop potato (Sonya) Call is a slow, rather rollicking series of mellow, often gurgling sounds: ‘kurrok, kurrowk’; ‘curra-currow-currowk’; ‘carrow-carrow-currawowk’. In flight gives a distinctive, wailing, raucous, descending ‘kirrair-kirrair-kirrowk’ Morcombe and Stewart

Australian Raven High far-carrying, child-like wailing; a series of slow notes with strangled, drawn-out finnish. Quiet croaking. Simpson and Day.

Torresian Crow High pitched series of stacatto honkings, can finnish with one or more longer notes. Loud falsetto stutter. Simpson and Day.

Apostlebird Harsh and scratchy like the sound of tearing sandpaper; loud discordant ‘ch-kew, ch-kew’; on being disturbed rough nasal ‘git-out’. Pizzey

Mistletoebird Most notes have a glancing splintered quality. Sharp ‘dzee!’ or ‘tsew!’; clear penetrating ‘kinsey-kinsey-kinsey’; ‘wait-a-bit, wait-a-bit, zhipp!’; or ‘swizit, swizit, weet-weet-swizit’; also soft warbling. Pizzey.

Tree Martin Dry little ‘drrrt drrrt’ and animated twittering song. Pizzey.

Fairy Martin Distinctive chirrup; also sweet twittering. Simpson and Day.

Little Grassbird Mournful whistle of three notes on one level, ‘p-peee-peee’; also a dry scolding rattle. Pizzey

Rufous Songlark Song has a sweet, splintered, almost ventriloquial quality; often begins with a clear loud trill, then develops into full refrain, ‘a-witchy-weedle’, repeated. Pizzey.

Brown Songlark Strange, metalic, gutteral and far-carrying; hence school childrens’ name ‘skit-scot-a-wheeler’. Pizzey

Southern Boobook Morepork Morepork (Maureen). Falsetto ‘yo-yo-yo-yo’; drawn out rising catlike ‘brrrwow’ and monotonously repeated low ‘mor-mor-mor’. Pizzey

Barn Owl Hoarse thin wavering reedy screech: ‘skee-air!’ Pizzey.

Tawny Frogmouth Low repeated ‘oom-oom-oom-oom’, slow or quite rapid and repeated up to 40 times; seems to have no clear beginning or end. Pizzey

Australian Owlet-nightjar High pitched slightly weird ‘chirr chirr’, repeated several times. Pizzey.

Common Bronzewing Oom-oom-oom’ of fugitive but carrying quality, repeated monotonously.

Crested Pigeon Explosive whoop; low coo. Simpson and Day

Squatter Pigeon Rapid falling 3-5 notes; cooing chuckle; rising whoop. Simpson and Day

Diamond Dove Flute like slow coo-ah coo-coo-ah. Simpson and Day

Peaceful Dove Carrying 3 note woodle-oo; descending wooorr. Simpson and Day

Bar-shouldered Dove ‘Bob Hawke Bob Hawke' Maureen. Double noted, cheery ‘cookaw-cookor’ Also a long bubbling laughing descending ‘cook-aw-cookaw-cookaw-cookaw-‘ Morecombe

Speckled Warbler Undulating, cheery mix of clear whistles and more mellow notes. Morcombe and Stewart

Weebill Wheet-will’; ‘whit-a-whit’. Lower ‘tizit’. Simpson and Day.

Western Gerygone Sweet, rising, falling, fading. Simpson and Day.

White-throated Gerygone Distinctive falling, tinkling song. Simpson and Day.

Inland Thornbill Lively, sharp ‘tsip-chip-’; ‘loud clear musically whistled ‘chweeeip!’ and deep, mellow tremulously wharbled ‘quor-r-r-r-r-eip’. Morcombe and Stewart

Chestnut-rumped Thornbill High peevish squeaking: ‘tsee, tsee-tseep, tseep, tseeip’. Morcombe and Stewart

Buff-rumped Thornbill Tinkling reel. Simpson and Day.

Yellow-rumped Thornbill Vivacious merry tinkling with cyclic pattern. Pizzey.

Yellow Thornbill Persistent ‘tizz tizz’. Simpson and Day.

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