Bird (?) song typical of 'jungle' sounds

[Jodie]

Recently on Donal MacIntyre's programme in Papua New Guinea there were brief
Accurist trailers beforehand showing the Accurist watch and the soundtrack included
an animal call (I've presumed it's a bird) which is a very high pitched whistle, and I
think if anyone heard it and was asked "what does that remind you of?" they'd say
"rainforest" and / or "jungle".

Does anyone know what I'm talking about and, if so, what creature is making this
sound?

I am working my way through the many sound clips on the web but have not yet
found it. Even found the Accurist page but the trailers have no audio...

 

[Brian.T]

Why not email the film company and ask them? They may be able to help you.

info@darefilms.co.uk

 

[Jodie]

I might do that...

(scurries off to see who Dare Films are)

EDIT - Ah they produced the actual film
I suppose I should email Accurist as it's the unknown animal in their trailer that I'm after.
Then again Donal MacIntyre might also know the answer!

Thanks, Jo

 

[Galemys]

Recently on Donal MacIntyre's programme in Papua New Guinea there were brief
Accurist trailers beforehand showing the Accurist watch and the soundtrack included
an animal call (I've presumed it's a bird) which is a very high pitched whistle, and I
think if anyone heard it and was asked "what does that remind you of?" they'd say
"rainforest" and / or "jungle".

Does anyone know what I'm talking about and, if so, what creature is making this
sound?

Jodie,

Not quite New Guinean but in a lot of ´jungle´programs, the sound of the south american Screaming piha (Lipaugus vociferans) is featured. It´s loud wolfwhistle-like sound drove Redmond O´Hanlon nuts during his jungletrek in Venezuela. Here´s a link with a picture and the whistle (and some other southamerican jungledwellers in case I am wrong ):
http://webserv.nhl.nl/~ribot/english/

Cheers,

Tom

 

[Jodie]

Thank you!

That's exactly the one. I LOVE that sound - it's so evocative. The one thing missing
from the palm house at Kew!

There's a good one here too: http://www.ecocam.com/nature/Suriname.html
(two small pictures next to each other, one of the bird, one of the howler monkey,
overlaid with blue waveform - click on picture, then on 'ecocam' to open file).
The white bellbird sounds like something out of star trek.

It makes me want to go to the rainforest - if only I didn't hate travelling, heat, humidity
or being bitten by insects or worse

There's another piha here: http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/listen.html

 

[Galemys]

It makes me want to go to the rainforest - if only I didn't hate travelling, heat, humidity or being bitten by insects or worse

I'd volunteer to take your place...