Overview
The Australian king parrot (Alisterus scapularis) is a species of parrot endemic to eastern Australia ranging from Cooktown in Queensland to Port Campbell in Victoria. Found in humid and heavily forested upland regions of the eastern portion of the continent, including eucalyptus wooded areas in and directly adjacent to subtropical and temperate rainforest. They feed on fruits and seeds gathered from trees or on the ground.
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Alisterus scapularis 1:16 flies closer and calls and flies away.
Group of currawongs with a variety of calls. Was overcast and had some brief drops of rain, followed by more rain later.
Not a lot of vocalizations due to the time of day.
Silenced some noise.
Normalized the whole thing, then sections outside of the loudest noises to boost background noise.
Recorded on a deck at the back of the house, about 5-10 m above ground. This is typical dry sclerophyll forest on a ridge with eucalypts and casuarinas dominating the canopy. There are intermittent creeks (more like ponds along the creekline as of Nov 2018) at the valley bottoms east and west about 200 m away.
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Common name: Pied Currawong
Type: flight call, male, song
Genus: Strepera
Species: graculina
Location: Faulconbridge, Blue Mountains City Council, New South Wales
Country: Australia
Elevation: 480 mJames Ray · CC BY-SA 4.0
References
- GBIF Auto Sync GBIF
- Wikipedia — Australian king parrot Wikipedia
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