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Wild about cats

Post subject: What Is Your Favourite Bird Call?

Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:39 pm

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Location: Counting the seconds till I see a Kruger sunset again

Arrow Marked Babbler
Woodland Kingfisher
Narina Trogon
African Fish Eagle
African Scops Owl
Orange-breasted Bush-shrike
Natal Spurfowl
Diederik Cuckoo
Brown-headed Parrot
African Hoopoe
Cape Robin-chat
Red-chested Cuckoo
Black-collared Barbet
Magpie Shrike
Black-backed Puffback
Burchell's Coucal
African Mourning Dove
Gorgoeus Bush-shrike
Emerald Spotted Wood-dove
Crested Barbet
Black-headed Oriole
Helmeted Guineafowl

Or any other suggestions...?

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ndloti

Post subject: Re: What Is Your Favourite Bird Call?

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 1:13 pm

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Mine is the fiery necked nightjar .

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elephus

Post subject: Re: What Is Your Favourite Bird Call?

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:22 pm

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Location: pretoria

Grey Lourie

Mods, please do somthing about the serval's avatar, this is a family forum... :wink:

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ecojunkie

Post subject: Re: What Is Your Favourite Bird Call?

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:34 pm

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I love the plaintive call of the grey hornbill - so evocative of the bush.

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Siobain

Post subject: Re: What Is Your Favourite Bird Call?

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:36 pm

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I have to agree with you WAC, there are so many it is difficult to
choose, but living in the Free State my choice is more limited, so
I have to say at home it is the 'Cape Robin Chat'. When at Kruger in
the summer, I love the 'Woodland Kingfisher', and for the evenings
I have to agree with the weird avvie'd serval :lol:

'Fiery necked nightjar'

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ndloti

Post subject: Re: What Is Your Favourite Bird Call?

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:49 pm

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elephus wrote:

Grey Lourie

Mods, please do somthing about the serval's avatar, this is a family forum... :wink:

I didn't think people concentrated on the people in the pic .
At least I can at the same time also crop the telephone poles .
Done , your family can now stop perving ...

Last edited by ndloti on Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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elephus

Post subject: Re: What Is Your Favourite Bird Call?

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 3:52 pm

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Location: pretoria

Great retort serval man!

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TheunsH

Post subject: Re: What Is Your Favourite Bird Call?

Posted: Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:47 pm

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Definitely the African Scops Owl while sitting around a "hardekool" (lead wood) fire in the bush...prrt-prrt...I hope that is the one I'm thinking about. :thumbs_up:

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EetHomKitty

Post subject: Re: What Is Your Favourite Bird Call?

Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:06 am

Joined: Wed Feb 11, 2009 2:38 pm
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Location: JHB

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In all hosently, Scops Owl at night and during the day - I think it is some type of dove, you allways hear it on african wildlife programs. Might be the Mourning Dove, I dont have speakers with me so its kinda difficult to hear.

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ndloti

Post subject: Re: What Is Your Favourite Bird Call?

Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:38 am

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Probably green spotted dove ? (alternative name emerald spotted wood dove - often seen flying up off the quieter dirt roads)

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Sprocky

Post subject: Re: What Is Your Favourite Bird Call?

Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 9:47 am

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Alright, I'll break the ice :whistle:

The African Fish Eagle, it has to be the best sound in Africa, followed closely by the Kuduzela. :wink:

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big5spotter

Post subject: Re: What Is Your Favourite Bird Call?

Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:19 am

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Location: Ruimsig, Gauteng

Sprocky wrote:

The African Fish Eagle,

No doubt about it!

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Rooies

Post subject: Re: What Is Your Favourite Bird Call?

Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 10:54 am

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For me it's the Yellow Billed Hornbill. When I go through the tunnel on the way to Hoedspruit and Phalaborwa, I cannot wait to see and hear the first Hornbill. When I hear them, I know that paradise is just around the corner.

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Nurse Bev

Post subject: Re: What Is Your Favourite Bird Call?

Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:00 pm

Joined: Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:33 pm
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Location: Land of the Zulus, somewhere in the sugar cane

For me also the African Fish Eagle - known here as Inkwazi. I live close enough to the Tugela river to hear them, if not see them.

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Babu

Post subject: Re: What Is Your Favourite Bird Call?

Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 10:59 am

Joined: Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:05 am
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Red-chested Cuckoo! :lol:

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