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| "text": "My first thought was a Lyrebird imitating some man made sound, just an uneducated guess really.", | |
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| "text": "Yowie or Bunyip.", | |
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| "text": "A friend of mine (reflection on GoPro) was stuck in the forest near Comboyne during the storm last Thursday. He put his GoPro out to record the storm, but after it was over he went to retrieve the GoPro. First he heard a branch snap (not shown in video), then he heard a scream. That’s when he went back inside and thought better of collecting the GoPro ‘til morning.", | |
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| "text": "When he told us about it, I thought it might be an owl, but after listening to it, it doesn’t sound like an owl or any other animal we can think of. Any ideas?", | |
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| "text": "Edit: The general consensus seems to be a lyrebird. u/fungochutney came up with that almost as soon as I posted and many of you agree. u/hemansteve has come up with a very plausible explanation, being a lyrebird imitating a motorcycle accelerating. This sounds like it might be right on the money.", | |
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| "text": "Thank you everyone for trying to solve it, and thank you for the laughs along the way, I had a lot of fun reading some of the comments. Gotta love redditors ", | |
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| "text": "Do you mean the cicada noises or the T-Rex near the end?", | |
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| "text": "Green Spotted Catbird.", | |
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| "text": "Here's a link to the Green Spotted Catbird call: [https://youtu.be/X4sYp-qM2Lg](https://youtu.be/X4sYp-qM2Lg)", | |
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| "text": "Reddit wouldn't let me edit this link into my previous comment. They're common in the rainforests in that area.", | |
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| "text": "I don't think the recording does very good justice? Is there somewhere you could uploaded it from the source instead?", | |
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| "text": "It sounds like a compressed video game sound effect lol", | |
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| "text": "Master chiefs shield reloading nearby. Be careful, probably a few grunts around.", | |
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| "text": "Gotta be a lyrebird imitating an alarm. Im pretty sure they are the only bird that can make this like.. [computery](https://youtu.be/AwxvjrbEkTg) kinda noise", | |
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| "text": "Bird ID on facebook will be able to help I am sure.", | |
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| "text": "Yowie!", | |
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| "text": "Is that Harley from epic meal time?", | |
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| "text": "I agree with the others who said it was a lyrebird. They make some crazy sounds, worth a YouTube if you’re bored.", | |
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| "text": "That’s a bunyip!!!", | |
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| "text": "I was going to say cicadas at first, however after hearing the noise I did think lyrebird. After looking at the comments I see I’m far from the only one of that opinion", | |
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| "text": "Lyrebird imitating a Toyota Hybrid?", | |
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| "text": "Considering the video starts with a truck accelerating, it’s possible the lyrebird is imitating an accelerating sports motorbike", | |
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| "text": "That’s something we never thought of. Great thinking! Do lyrebirds call at night?", | |
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| "text": "Lol. Drop bear perhaps? Thanks for the giggle u/JimmahMca. Hey, you never know…", | |
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| "text": "Lol the T-Rex at the end. I think you nailed it, he >did< say it was loud. I’ll let him know it’s been solved 🤣.", | |
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| "text": "There is a frog croaking near the start, but it’s pretty quiet. I dunno, maybe Trexy was hunting it?? Sorry, I just woke up, my banter is off. Thanks u/Enceladus89, you made me giggle.", | |
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| "text": "I just went on a half hour tour of youtube looking at all sorts of glider calls, it was worth it. Thank you for nudging me there. I didn’t find anything that sounded like the clip though.", | |
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| "text": "With that said, your description is pretty much how our mate described it. He reckoned it scared the pants off him too, he didn’t dare come out until morning.", | |
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| "text": "I’d never heard their call until that youtube tour so you would know better than me. I’m gonna keep looking at YouTube vids (they’re so cute hehe).", | |
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| "text": "It’s so sad you don’t have a population near you anymore, those bushfires were devastating. I hope they make a comeback.", | |
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| "text": "I can see why they called it a CATbird. The last part of the call almost sounds like the clip. I wonder… Thanks Tac0321, I appreciate you jumping in, and cheers for the link too. Great detective work.", | |
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| "text": "You’re right, it’s not the original source, I recorded it on my phone while the GoPro was playing, the original hasn’t been taken from my friend’s GoPro to laptop yet.", | |
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| "text": "He says that he thought the same thing about the sound, but his car was broken down in the bush and he had no other electronics such as movies or games playing. He swears it is an animal, but he doesn’t know what. When he heard it in person, he thought it was a bird. When he described it to me I thought maybe an owl, but after hearing it I don’t think it’s an owl.", | |
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| "text": "He leaves again tomorrow morning, but if I get the download from the GoPro I’ll upload it.", | |
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| "text": "Sorry u/Parking_Cucumber_184, I just woke up and my brain is trying to decipher what you said. What did I miss?", | |
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| "text": "Wow, that was an interesting clip. I’ve never heard a lyrebird (that I know of), I knew they were good at mimicking, but wow, that was spot on mimicry, I never knew they were THAT good. Thanks for the link, that’s just gotta be it. Makes you wonder how often they hear a game or something out in the bush, but I can’t think of anything else it might be.", | |
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| "text": "I’m not on Facebook, my friend is though, I’ll pass along your suggestion. It’s a good idea, thank you.", | |
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| "text": "Hehe yup!", | |
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| "text": "Not sure that I know that one.", | |
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| "text": "Ha! I knew it!!!", | |
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| "text": "It does sound kind of “whiny” doesn’t it? I can see the way you’re thinking. I’m thinking it’s probably a lyrebird too. Thanks for pitching in to try solving it :)", | |
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| "text": "That’s two people that have thought of that. I’m really wondering if that could’ve been it now.", | |
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| "text": "Ooh. I didn’t even think of that. It makes a lot of sense since it was in the forest next to a rest stop. I thought that was a frog at the start of the clip lol.", | |
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| "text": "Yeah, I think you might be spot on. Brilliant thinking Steve!!", | |
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| "text": "Wow cool.", | |
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| "text": "They can. you hear them up in the blue mountains occasionally at night. it's not common, but it happens. I always imagine it as a late night text of regret", | |
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| "text": "owl will be more likely if you can find a good match.", | |
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| "text": "Yeah my thought too. Drop bear mating call. When they attack the first and last thing you hear is your screams. Deadly little buggers.", | |
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| "text": "Yeah they sound like a cat going reeeowww lol it's a very weird and creepy sound to hear in the rainforest!", | |
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| "text": "could be an owl still, they make mighty odd noises.", | |
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| "text": "Video game reference. It sounds a bit like the character from Halo’s shield recharging.", | |
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| "text": "Here: https://youtu.be/d1mAPfhdpwE", | |
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| "text": "Never looked at a 10c piece?", | |
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| "text": "Just a guess.", | |
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| "text": "I’ve spent a lot of time camping in lyrebird territory and each has their own local calls.", | |
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| "text": "Typically they play a chorus early in the morning of other bird songs and human habitation noises (chainsaws, car alarms etc).", | |
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| "text": "My best theory on why the mimic is based on natural selection and the advantage the mimicry creates for them. At Dawn and dusk when they are most vocal they tend to utilise other bird calls, creating a territory for themselves in that birds habitat (kookaburras for example) this is so they don’t compete for food with kookaburras.", | |
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| "text": "By mimicking human noises, it’s more efficient, they are scaring all birds and predators (goannas mostly these days or feral dogs) away.", | |
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| "text": "So hence, if is was startled by your friend during the night when they don’t call, it would have gone for the loudest human sound it new to startle the unknown threat away, which was probably a 250cc dirt or sports bike with a shitty exhaust red lining 1st gear to accelerate onto a highway on ramp or up a dirt hill on a fire trail. If you could imagine how loud and dominant that sound would be in a natural bush setting and the startled nature it would have on local mammals and birds, you could then deduce the lyrebird wants to own that sound for its personal survival … and evolutionary advantage.", | |
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| "text": "Yeah, I originally thought owl when he described the “screech” but dismissed it when I heard the video, but with that said, I haven’t heard every type of owl.", | |
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| "text": "It was at night time after the electrical storm, the lightning and thunder could have woken anything up. So yeah, it might have been a lyrebird mimicking too. I’ve just never heard anything like it so thought I’d ask here because someone might recognise it.", | |
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| "text": "Damn straight they are!! Aww but they’re sooooo cuuute, I just wanna love him and hold him and pet him and….. Ah shit, I’m dead.", | |
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| "text": "For sure, I’ve heard some mighty screeches from owls, makes your hair stand on end sometimes. This is the first time I’ve heard anything sound like this so I guess an owl can’t be ruled out. Just because I’ve never heard it before doesn’t mean it couldn’t be that huh?", | |
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| "text": "Thanks u/oosuteraria-jin, I’d written off the owl possibility until you said that.", | |
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| "text": "Oh! Sorry, I’ve never played it so I didn’t get the reference. You’re right, it does sound very similar, good call. Our mate says it was definitely an animal though. Thanks for the link :)", | |
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| "text": "I should have made that clearer I think, my bad. I’ve heard OF lyrebirds, have seen many images of them, but have never heard them making calls - unless they’ve been so good at it I never realised I was, in fact, listening to a lyrebird. I know I’ve never actually seen them roaming around in the wild.", | |
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| "text": "I think we’ve all seen a 10c piece lol.", | |
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| "text": "All good. Sorry can’t help you more. I haven’t heard anything that sounds like your recording… was it taken close to where there are houses and people? Like other have said maybe a lyrebird?", | |
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| "text": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr\\_Eg8Zw7LA", | |
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| "text": "A few people have said lyrebird, I’m thinking they may be right. It was coming from the forest, nowhere near any houses, but his car was broken down in a resting bay, so there would be exposure to people I’d assume. The storm might have woken it up 🤷. It does sound an awful lot like that recharging sound.", | |
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| "text": "Gosh, they ARE good, you’d never know that was a bird. Thanks for the link, that was pretty cool. I missed it when it was all over the news.", | |
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