Birds · Not heard for 33 days.

Australian Brushturkey

Alectura lathami

First heard here 22 Sept · last heard 4 Oct · 3 days in the last year · 9 detections on record

Hear it

A clear recording song, recorded in Australia

Marc Anderson, xeno-canto, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Trimmed to 20 seconds.

Heard here by the park sensor, 98% match

Raw and a bit distant; the bird was somewhere in the park, not next to the microphone.

What to look for

The Australian brushturkey, Australian brush-turkey, or gweela, also commonly called the bush turkey, scrub turkey, or just brushturkey, is a large mound-building bird of the family Megapodiidae. It is found in eastern Australia, ranging from Far North Queensland to the south coast of New South Wales, and has also been introduced to Kangaroo Island in South Australia. It is the largest living member of the Megapodiidae and one of three species native to Australia.

Read more on Wikipedia (Australian brushturkey)

When it has been heard

Detections per day, last 30 days. Heard on 0 of them.

Busiest day so far: Tuesday 22 September, 5 detections between 11:16am and 11:36am.

Time of day

When it calls, last 30 days. Darker is busier.

Busiest around 11am. From 3 days with hourly counts.

Day	Heard	First	Last	Peak confidence
4 Oct	3	1:12pm	6:33pm	74%
3 Oct	1	9:38am	9:38am	74%
22 Sept	5	11:16am	11:36am	98%

Detections are automatic and can be wrong.