Tom’s New Wildlife Audio Site

  • Collared Sparrowhawk or Brown Goshawk?

    Collared Sparrowhawk or Brown Goshawk?

    For most of New Years Day 2022 in the Dayboro area it was incredibly wet (over 80mm fell in the morning) but at dusk the clouds cleared a little and I became aware of the shrill-call of an ‘Accipiter’ hawk from a nearby Hoop-Pine. My initial thought was that it was a Collared Sparrowhawk (Accipiter…

  • Which Buttonquail?

    Which Buttonquail?

    Recently I’ve been hearing a buttonquail (turnix species) calling from long-grass on the roadside near my residence, I’ve managed to get a few audio-recordings but no results on the camera-trap. I have had very brief views which suggested a rather large dark-brown bird, but there are also numerous Brown Quail (Coturnix ypsilophora) present here too.…

  • Diamond Dove Dawn

    This 8-minute recording was made on the bridge at Lake Bindegolly SW Qld at dawn on the 6th June 2020. It mainly features the calls of Diamond Doves, but you can also hear hundreds of Tree and Fairy Martins, the ‘trilling’ of Rufous Songlark and numerous Budgerigars, White-winged Fairywrens, Zebra Finch and a Willie Wagtail.

  • Lock-Down Sound-Recording

    During the COVID-19 Pandemic threat Queensland has had to endure similar ‘lock-downs’ to the rest of Australia but however (so far to date) we have been ‘permitted’ to exercise locally (…and in ‘isolation’!) therefore I have been taking the opportunity to record some ‘wildlife-audio’ on my own in local-parks, taking advantage of the reduction in…