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Pale-vented Bush-hen

Amaurornis moluccana

Pale-vented Bush-hen PIPING Strongly supported

Putative nocturnal call type

Set of 10+ penetrating piping notes at about 1.4kHz given in bursts as birds fly over. This is the PIPING call per HANZAB.

Evidence for identification

Perfect match to spectrograms of this call, which is also given frequently in the daytime.

Confidence statement

High confidence since this is a well-known vocalisation.

Similar species / confusion risks

No obvious confusion species for this call.

Project detections: 36 annotations; 4 nights; recorded in January, April, October, November; most recent detection 05 Apr 2026.

Project clips

Pale-vented Bush-hen PIPING

Carindale (-27.52, 153.11), 02 Oct 2021, 01:23:11, Annotation 1900, Annotator: Richard Fuller, Automated light denoise applied

Pale-vented Bush-hen PIPING

Carindale (-27.52, 153.11), 02 Oct 2021, 01:23:33, Annotation 1901, Annotator: Richard Fuller, Automated light denoise applied

Pale-vented Bush-hen PIPING

Griffin (-27.27, 153.03), 05 Apr 2026, 23:51:53, Annotation 7028, Annotator: Andy Jensen, Clip manually edited for clarity