Rufous Whistler SINGLE-NOTE CALL Tentative
Putative nocturnal call type
Very brief upward-infected whistle at about 3.1kHz, with the rich tonal quality of a whistler.
Evidence for identification
Described in HANZAB as A brief sharp whistle swt or whIT with an upward inflexion, similar to whipcracks whhh-IT or ee-chong of Song, but much briefer.
Confidence statement
Very tentative at present, but grouped here under Rufous Whistler to aid in extracting and grouping examples of this call. Need detailed speccy comparisons.
Similar species / confusion risks
Other whistlers, other passerines.
Project detections: 1 annotation; 1 night; recorded in March; most recent detection 25 Mar 2026.
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