Birds · New here: first heard 19 Sept.

Noisy Miner

Manorina melanocephala

First heard here 19 Sept · last heard today at 1:45pm · 2 days in the last year · 31 detections on record

Hear it

A clear recording call, song, dawn calls, recorded in Australia

Khristos Nizamis, xeno-canto, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Trimmed to 20 seconds.

Heard here by the park sensor, 100% match

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

What to look for

The noisy miner is a bird in the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae, and is endemic to eastern and southeastern Australia. This miner is a grey bird, with a black head, orange-yellow beak and feet, a distinctive yellow patch behind the eye, and white tips on the tail feathers. The Tasmanian subspecies has a more intense yellow panel in the wing, and a broader white tip to the tail. Males, females and juveniles are similar in appearance, though young birds are a brownish-grey. As the common name suggests, the noisy miner is a vocal species with a large range of songs, calls, scoldings and alarms, and almost constant vocalisations, particularly from young birds. One of four species in the genus Manorina, the noisy miner itself is divided into four subspecies. The separation of the Tasmanian M. m. leachi is of long standing, and the mainland birds were further split in 1999.

When it has been heard

Detections per day, last 30 days. Heard on 2 of them.

Busiest day so far: Saturday 19 September, 21 detections between 5:01am and 6:02pm.

Day	Detections	First	Last	Peak confidence
20 Sept	10	4:45am	1:45pm	99%
19 Sept	21	5:01am	6:02pm	100%

Detections are automatic and can be wrong.