All other images sourced from Getty Images and ABC. Image credits: Lorraine Phelan (banjo frog) Mick Roderick (yellow-tailed black cockatoos) Geoff Whalan/Flickr (bush-stone curlew) Tatters/ (grey butcherbird) Aaron Booth/Flickr (greengrocer cicada) Kym Farnik/Flickr (superb fairywren) Alex Maisey (lyrebird) Wes Read (moaning frog) Dick Daniels, Wikimedia commons (Australian raven) Greg Miles/Flickr (whipbird) David Cook, Flikr (yellow-bellied glider). Yong Ding Li (gang-gang cockatoo, XC152408 ( CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)) Law, NSW DPI (koala, yellow-bellied glider). Dale Roberts (moaning frog). David Edwards (barking owl XC521643 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)) Claudje (dingo, ALA, (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)).

ABC (cicadas, banjo frog, green tree frog, Tasmanian devil). James Lambert (yellow-tailed black cockatoo XC607120 bush stone-curlew XC589420 galah XC726093 koel XC769768: (ABC licensed). You can listen to all the animals below, and keep an ear out for two of the challengers - the cicada and the lyrebird - in a two-part Catalyst documentary exploring the Soundtrack of Australia.Īudio credits: Marc Anderson, grey butcherbird, fairywren, grey-headed flying fox, kookaburra, lyrebird magpie, common ringtail possum, common brushtail possum, raven, sugar glider, sulphur-crested cockatoo, whipbird). 'I think the magpie remains an acoustic enigma and I love it whenever I hear it!' - Costa. Gardening Australia's Costa Georgiadis was also Team Magpie: 'My favourite Australian sound is that of the magpie, their delicious chortling and cawing. They speak to each other - they've got a large vocabulary. They are a highly intelligent animal and if you’re nice to them they’ll be nice to you.' - Dr Karl. Like many female birds, the female gang-gang is a. 'The magpie - that's the one I would've put money on, because I would be a millionaire if I had a dollar for every time someone said to me, 'I lived overseas and when I came back the sound of magpies sounded like home.'' - Ann Jones.ĭr Karl Kruszelnicki also picked the magpie: The Gang-gang Cockatoo is a small cockatoo with the male displaying a very distinctive scarlet head and crest. The result did not surprise the ABC's Nature Nerd Ann Jones:

Their songs are so familiar in so many different parts of Australia, perhaps it's no surprise that this melodious bird has swooped again - this time, all the way to the top of our vote for the nation's favourite animal sound!Ĭheck out all the action of the countdown in our blogĬlearly beloved by many Australians, the magpie also won the first round of voting, when it was up against the starting pack of 28 animals carefully selected by our panel of experts (with a bit of help from social media). The magpie has swooped in with a decisive win!Īfter almost 150,000 votes over two rounds, the race for the nation's hearts and ears has drawn to a close.Ī third of all votes in the final round went to Gymnorhina tibicen: the famous Australian magpie.

Gang gang cockatoo song