Powerful Owl Calls
April is a good time to hear the sounds of Powerful Owls as they are entering the breeding season and often call just before dawn and just after dusk.
Listen to Powerful Owl Calls
The audio in the following video was recorded in the Royal National Park, Sydney, just before dawn. The deep, slow ‘woo-hoo’ call is diagnostic of this species and is generally lower-pitched and more drawn out than the typical calls of the Southern Boobook (Ninox boobook). In this recording you can a Bassian Thrush (Zoothera lunulata) singing in the background. Light rain is falling in the early morning darkness. Between 0:08 and 1:32 a female Powerful is calling making the typical double note song. At 1:32 she is joined by the male who begins making the lower-pitched faster gruff call followed by a few lower pitcher double note calls. Towards the end of the video you can hear some softer interaction calls between the two.
Other Night Sounds
Other species you might hear at night in the Australian bush:
Mammals
- Devil, Tasmanian
- Flying Foxes
- Glider, Squirrel
- Glider, Sugar
- Glider, Yellow-bellied
- Kangaroo
- Koala
- Possum, Common Brushtail
- Possum, Common Ringtail
- Wombat
Birds
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