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[Pierre Abbat]

>>where he states that the podargue is called the morepork erroneously
>>because it says "kom-kom-kom".
>
>I greatly enjoyed the morepork RealAudio clip, although I must say that I
>have no understanding of how birders come up with these bizarre words to
>describe bird calls.  Sounds more like "whoo-hoo" to me.

The RealAudio clip is of the owl. It is the podargue that says "kom-kom-kom".

Sorry for the kom-fusion.

phma