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Plumed Whistling Duck Shrill whistlings, high wheezy ‘tzwit-tzwit-tzwit-tzwit’. In roosting flocks, an almost continuous ‘jizzing-chittering’.

Wandering Whistling Duck A confused, high, whistled, rather tremulous ‘wit-wit-wit...’, slightly slurred.

Australian Wood (Maned) Duck Female a querulous, nasal ‘grouwwk’, beginning low, rising; male similar, but higher, abrupt ‘nowk!’

Pacific Black Duck Male gives a quick ‘rhaab-rhaab’ of varying strength; in warning, a loud, extended ‘rhaaaeeb’; in display a high pitched whistle immediately followed by a deep grunt. Female, typical loud duck quackings, single quacks of varying strength, and a long sequence, descending and fading, ‘quaak, quaak, quak, quak-quakquak’.

Grey Teal Male gives a sharp whistle with soft, low grunt and loud whistled ‘gedg-ee-oo’. Female has a loud, chuckled, descending series of quacks; also a slow, harsh, drawn out ‘que-aark’.

Hardhead (White-eyed Duck) Male soft wheezy whistle and ‘whirrr’; female a loud, harsh, rattled ‘gaak, gak, gakgakgak ’.

Australasian Grebe Rapid, sharp chittering; harsher versions in threat or agression.

Laughing Kookaburra Raucous ‘koo-koo-ka-ka-kook’. Simpson and Day.

Blue-winged Kookaburra Appalling: starts of with gutteral ‘klock, klock, klock, klock’ and develops into a cacaphony of squarks and skreeches, somewhat like a machine-driven hacksaw. Pizzey

Forest Kingfisher Rapid high whistles, strident chatter. Simpson and Day.

Red-backed Kingfisher Repeated mournful whistle; harsh chatter. Simpson and Day.

Sacred Kingfisher Loud repeated ‘kek-kek-kek’. Rising ‘kee-kee-kee’ duets near nest. Simpson and Day.

White-breasted Woodswallow Brisk ‘pirt, pirt’ somwhat like toy-trumpet. Pizzey

Masked Woodswallow Musical ‘chap, chap’; also sweet miner-like notes. Pizzey

White-browed Woodswallow Rather musical, descending ‘tchip-tchep’. From large flocks this creates a constant yapping chatter. Morcombe and Stewart.

Black-faced Woodswallow Not loud; sweet notes, scratchy ‘chiff, chiff or ‘chap, chap’. Pizzey

Dusky Woodswallow Soft low ‘vut, vut’; also brisk ‘peet peet or chirps and chirrups with slightly brassy tone; song quiet but animated. Pizzey

Little Woodswallow A brisk ‘peet, peet’; may be uttered as a series of three or four evenly spaced notes or as a single note followed by two quick notes; more rarely as four high pitched notes. Pizzey.

Rainbow Bee-eater Melodius trilling ‘prrrt-prrrit’ in flight. Simpson and Day.

Dollarbird Harsh accelerating nasal yap; churring. Simpson and Day.

Brown Treecreeper Stacatto ‘spink spink’; harsh rattle; chuckling songs. Simpson and Day.

Varigated Fairy-wren High metalic, squeaky and rather clockwork or mechanical rattling trill at fairly uniform pitch. Morcombe and Stewart.

Red-backed Fairy-wren Call begins with squeaks so high and weak that they would only be heard when very close, followed by a trill beginning with high squeaky notes, usually switching to lower, louder rattling sounds. Morcombe and Stewart.

Red-browed Pardalote Five somewhat parrot-like whistled notes, first two slow and rising, other three quicker and higher; or one slow followed by five quicker high notes. Pizzey

Striated Pardalote “Choop-chullum”. Clear, sharp musical ‘witta-witta’ the second part slightly lower, soft low trills. Morcombe and Stewart

Crested-bellbird Parnparnparlarla. (Ngaanyatjarra) ‘parnparnparlarla’. ‘it’s a beautiful sound.. a kind of comforting sound....’Nalda Searles

Golden Whistler Rising ‘wheat-wheat-wheat-WHITTLE!’ a brisk ‘dee-dee-dee-ah-WHIT!’ Pizzey.

Rufous Whistler Joey joey joey (Maureen) Also a call with a drawn out beginning powerful ringing whip-crack finish ‘eeee-CHIEW!’ and’ eeee-CHONG!’. Morcombe and Stewart

Grey Shrike-thrush pip-pip-pip-pip-ho-ee. High clear and often loudly ringing whistles intermingled with mellow musical notes and deep rich bubbly sounds. Morcombe and Stewart