G'day Bird

From G'day Bird
Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl № 170

Spot-bellied Eagle-Owl

Ketupa nipalensis

Generally taken to be Sri Lanka's ulama, the devil bird, whose scream at night is said to foretell a death. In the legend it was a mother who fled to the forest after her husband killed their child.

Photo · Ian Dugdale · CC BY 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Cropped and resized.

Call · THILANKA EDIRISINGHE · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · source · xeno-canto. Trimmed to 30 seconds, volume normalised.

A new Australian bird every morning, with its real call.
Get G'day Bird for iPhone or Android, with a home screen widget, the bird singing from your lock screen each morning, and on iPhone a bird in your Dynamic Island. See today's bird.