Avibase: Manorina melanocephala (Noisy Miner)

Noisy Miner

Manorina melanocephala (Latham, J 1801)

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Partial list of sound recordings available from xeno-canto & macaulaylibrary.org.

Species name	Recordist	Date	Location	Remarks	Cat.nr.
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	Marc Anderson	2013-11-21	Capertee River, NSW, New South Wales (Australia) (320 m)	alarm call - Possible alarm call bird-seen:no playback-used:no	172036 xeno-canto.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	Marc Anderson	2014-03-04	Leeton, New South Wales, New South Wales (Australia) (140 m)	alarm call - [sono]	206629 xeno-canto.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	John Westwood	2015-11-14	Carrum Downs, Victoria, Australia (Australia)	call -	290092 xeno-canto.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	Susan Inglis	2026-02-15	, Ballina (Australia)	-	651261419 macaulaylibrary.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	Marc Anderson	2018-08-22	Mount Moffatt, Maranoa Regional, Queensland, Booringa (Australia) (650 m)	call - bird-seen:no	434551 xeno-canto.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	Sreekar	2023-10-24	Carindale, Brisbane City, Queensland, Mansfield (Australia) (30 m)	call - [sono]	837694 xeno-canto.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala melanocephala	James Lambert	2020-09-22	Chermside Hills Reserve (near Chermside West), Brisbane City, Queensland, McDowall (Australia) (40 m)	adult, call - aggressive call, from 3 individuals, directed towards a pair of Brushturkeys bird-seen:yes playback-used:no	593937 xeno-canto.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	James Lambert	2024-08-01	, Australian Capital Territory (excl. Jervis Bay) (Australia)	-	622092668 macaulaylibrary.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	Andrew Galbraith	2023-09-01	Banks Street Reserve (near Alderley), Brisbane City, Queensland, Alderley (Australia) (20 m)	begging call - This is a begging call of a recently fledged juvenile.	826422 xeno-canto.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	Greg McLachlan	2021-08-06	Wolli Creek Regional Park, Canterbury, New South Wales, Australia, Canterbury (Australia)	-	359266511 macaulaylibrary.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	Marc Anderson	2021-10-08	Bimbi, New South Wales, Weddin (Australia) (480 m)	alarm call - Harassing Australian Raven bird-seen:yes	695203 xeno-canto.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	Ben Milbourne	2025-12-14	, Australian Capital Territory (excl. Jervis Bay) (Australia)	-	646878824 macaulaylibrary.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	lachlan mcnamara	2025-08-29	, Hornsby (Australia)	-	640981253 macaulaylibrary.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	James Lambert	2020-09-22	Chermside Hills Reserve, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Brisbane (Australia)	- fully-fledged immature begging from foraging parent; juvenile begs consistently and insistently until parent vocalises at 14 sec and silences the immature, the parent calls again at 17 seconds (? keeping the immature quiet); immature starts begging again at 19 secs and is silenced again by a call from the adult at 26 secs; after some period of silence the adult starts making a contact call to a conenger at 37 secs	264767001 macaulaylibrary.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala melanocephala	James Lambert	2022-03-27	Royal Botanic Garden Sydney (near Sydney), Council of the City of Sydney, New South Wales, Sydney - Inner (Australia) (10 m)	adult, begging call - begging call of nestling; nestling typically make this call relentlessly from sunrise to sunset bird-seen:yes playback-used:no	722524 xeno-canto.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	James Lambert	2021-01-16	Cabbage Tree Creek (Aspley), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Brisbane (Australia)	- mobbing calls; directed at a Ringtail Possum (Pseudocheirus peregrinus); part of a mixed-species mobbing flock: other birds in the flock were Pied Butcherbirds (2), Torresian Crow (2), Australian Magpie (2), Rainbow Lorikeet (2), Blue-faced Honeyeater (1)	297990691 macaulaylibrary.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	Marc Anderson	2021-10-09	Bimbi, New South Wales, Weddin (Australia) (480 m)	dawn song - Song at dawn bird-seen:no	695209 xeno-canto.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	Ben Milbourne	2026-02-16	, Australian Capital Territory (excl. Jervis Bay) (Australia)	-	651023691 macaulaylibrary.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	Jan S	2024-09-01	, Kogarah (Australia)	-	623171384 macaulaylibrary.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	Marc Anderson	2015-08-21	Capertee National Park, NSW, New South Wales (Australia) (440 m)	call - [sono]	269672 xeno-canto.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	Fernand Deroussen	2011-10-26	Noosa Heads, Queensland, Queensland (Australia) (10 m)	song - bird-seen:yes playback-used:no	157494 xeno-canto.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	James Ray	2019-02-25	Bronte, Waverley Council, New South Wales, Waverley (Australia) (50 m)	call - Foraging in trees in the back yard e.g. eucalyptus, banksia serrata. bird-seen:yes playback-used:no	459075 xeno-canto.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala melanocephala	James Lambert	2024-07-15	The Australian National University (near Acton), Australian Capital Territory, Acton (Australia) (550 m)	call - mobbing calls, mobbing recordist who surprised one bird feeding in low shrub; once this bird gave mobbing call, it was joined by three more from nearby	921801 xeno-canto.org
Noisy Miner - Manorina melanocephala	James Lambert	2025-11-19	, Australian Capital Territory (excl. Jervis Bay) (Australia)	-	645490639 macaulaylibrary.org

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