bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

No idea, but saw something for a flash which looked like Chestnut-vented tit babbler

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

The bird recorded in XC630776 and XC 630923 then showed itself with this call.

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

Calling from single tree in open farmyard.

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

pee-hew and twoo twoo calls

Attempt to record all songs in the regional dialect.

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

250Hz HP, -3dB normalised, audio split.

Recordist - T.Gridley

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

chowr wookiwooki call

Attempt to collect recordings of all songs in this regional dialect.

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

Calling from low bushes surrounding a pan, answered by mate some distance away.

bird-seen:yes

Bokmakierie seen singing from a bush in late summer.

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

250HP, -3dB normalised.

Recordist - A.Karamitsos

Pair calling from an exposed perch in open grassland.

bird-seen:yes

bokmakierie wok-wok bokmakierie

variation on standard 'bokmakierie' phrase with mechanical 'wok-wok' inserted between two 'bokmakierie'.

'bokmakierie' faster and higher pitched than usual phrase, could be written chichicheree instead.

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

bok hlee-hlee bok (mechanical song) continued without pause by male bird during mating (wing-fluttering of mating can also be heard).

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

Bird calling from well develop woody area in a ravine between two steep hills.

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

Recorded with Zoom H2 digital recorder in mp3 format; normalized. Recorded early morning from inside Khotso dormitory. Presumably the same bird was subject of previous upload XC336993.

bird-seen:no

playback-used:no

hoohoo-cruch song phrase

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

A duet between a sub-adult individual and an adult, the sub-adult learning to sing. The younger bird, which is not quite hitting the right notes yet, initiates the duet in the first part of the recording (e.g. just after 0:01 and just after 0:06), while the more experienced bird repeats the same part of the duet throughout, sometimes initiating (e.g. just after 0:10, just before 0:16, 0:35, 0:39, 0:43, 0:45, etc.), sometimes following (e.g. just after 0:01, just after 0:06, 0:25, 0:31, etc.). Note the younger bird again initiating the duet with two, harsher notes (just after 1:13, at 1:16). Not only does this record part of a song-learning process, but it also illustrates some of the variation, albeit brief, in the song of this species. The birds were singing while perched close to one another in the top of a 2.5 metre tall Buffalo thorn (Ziziphus mucronata) shrub growing in grassland behind houses. A distant pair of Bokmakieries may be heard duetting at 0:20, just after 0:22 and just after 0:28, etc. Recording modified slightly, using high pass and low pass filtering, as well as slight amplification.

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

hlee tooroor - glorious ringing call that echoes through the valley - always brings a smile to my face and makes it a good day :-)

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no

bird-seen:yes

playback-used:no