Australian Sounds

 Australia is a great place to get away from the noise that people make and loose yourself in the wilds.

I am lucky in that my best friend lives in one of these wilder places, his sister says he has “gone seriously woop woop”. He and his wife live in Queensland and he enjoys taking his friends into places in Australia where the vast majority of Aussies never venture. The wildlife recordings here are the results of those trips ---- photography was very much a secondary focus.

For those interested in wildlife recording in Australia I recommend joining the Australian Wildlife Sound Recording Group (AWSRG). They are an enthusiastic bunch of people and they have helped me considerably while in Aus. I am now their Overseas Representative, so anybody interested in joining please e mail me and visit their website at www.awsrg.org.au.

RB September 2019

AUSTRALIAN TRIP 1

Recorded at various places in Queensland on my first trip to Australia in 2001.

 

OLIVE BACKED ORIOLE

One of the inhabitants of Utopia Enviromental Reserve Queensland.

 

SPANGLED DRONGO

To be honest cannot remember exactly where but somewhere in Cape York, which is quite a large bit of Aus.

 

TOOTHED BILLED BOWER BIRD

A great day spent just north of Kingfisher Park in Queensland.

 

FIGBIRDS

EASTERN YELLOW ROBIN

KOOKABURRA

AUSTRALIAN MAGPIE

CUS CUS

RED-TAILED BLACK COCKATOO

 

YELLOW BREASTED BOATBILL  

RED CAPPED ROBIN (Recorded in the back of beyond) 

GREY HEADED ROBIN (As we swatted the March flies it swooped down and eat everyone of them) 

ELECTUS PARROT (What a wonderful sight)

YELLOW ORIOLE

 

GRACEFUL HONEYEATER 

CHOWCHILLA (Noisy birds that go around in groups)

CHANNELED BILLED CUCKOO (Large,loud birds) 

EASTERN YELLOW ROBIN (The bird you hear before dawn in the Eastern forests. This one recorded on Fraser Island) 

DINGO (I had an interesting walk along a Fraser Island beach with a party of these. Lovely starry night sky though!) 

FROGMOUTH 

PIED BUTCHER BIRD (What a fantastic song, my mate AB has a wonderful recording of these) 

WHITE CAPPED NODDY (These recorded on Lady Elliot island,part of the Barrier Reef.) 

WHIPBIRDS DUETTING 

WEDGE TAILED SHEARWATERS (They were nesting under the hut I was sleeping in) 

TORRESIAN CROW (Like all Corvids they have a lot to say about themselves) 

NOISY FRIAR BIRD