Bird Identification help needed Upwey Victoria Australia (1 Viewer)

[Stephen Powell]

I need some help to identify this birdcall, please!
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[mjh73]

Pacific Koel

 

[Stephen Powell]

Pacific Koel

Thank you. I've only heard this call a few times before and have never been able to get a look at it. It is high in a tree behind a house across the road from us. It is at the edge of its southern range according to my bird app.
The only Koel I've ever photographed was at the Kandariya Mahadev Temple, India.
Thanks again!

 

[mjh73]

Thank you. I've only heard this call a few times before and have never been able to get a look at it. It is high in a tree behind a house across the road from us. It is at the edge of its southern range according to my bird app.
The only Koel I've ever photographed was at the Kandariya Mahadev Temple, India.
Thanks again!

I've heard them much more than seen them. They are my 'bird that most often makes me jump out of bed'.
Backyard heard in past backyard in Mitcham and again in recent backyard in Ballarat. Ballarat I at least managed to sound record as a pretty rare record this far west.
Sadly (maybe!) they never stuck around in either back yard.

 

[mjh73]

It is at the edge of its southern range according to my bird app.

As a consequence of climate change they are becoming much more frequent around Melbourne. This year there have been quite a few records - a colleague in work had a similar recording he asked me to ID for him in the week coincidentally - the joys of being the weird birder guy in the office 😆

 

[SteveClark]

I was living in Canberra in 1996 and the arrival of a Koel that spring was big birding news. Now they are regular in Melbourne and are turning up in far sw Victoria. Climate change is real and the birds are responding.

 

[Stephen Powell]

I was living in Canberra in 1996 and the arrival of a Koel that spring was big birding news. Now they are regular in Melbourne and are turning up in far sw Victoria. Climate change is real and the birds are responding.

I'm 72 and have seen the changes to bird distribution. I would only get to see Corellas and Crested Pigeons when I traveled to central Victoria. Both now visit my garden in the dandenongs.