The Internal Sounds Types !!!

"Harry, are there any differences in playing the internal sounds ? Can you advise which sound to be played and how to detect their effectiveness?"

Two questions posted by one of my blog readers recently.

He has some valid points and I know not many BH owners can even differentiate between colony and mating sound. Most of them thought that there is only one sound for the internal.

I came to know about internal sounds about two years ago. While playing a stack of sounds given to me by a good friend from Ipoh, I found that there are more then one sound that can be played as internal sounds.

a) The Baby Sound.

The baby sound is more like babies crying for their mother or daddy for comfort or food. You can easily differentiate the sound very easily. In a populated house the baby sounds have special effect to those new birds who enter you BH to start their selection to stay as a tenant. The baby sound will make these new comers feel at ease and thus will make a positive decision to stay.
It is strongly recommended by many to ensure that baby sounds is a must in all the internal sound make up.

b) The Mating Sound.

The mating sound have a special effect on those young birds. Once they flew out of their nest they will need at least 6 to 8 months to get their body ready for production. This period they will normally follow their parent to learn on how to find food and perhaps learn to find safety in the event of any danger.
Once their urge to produce started, they need to find a life partner. This is when those mating sounds plays their part. The sound will actually accelerate their urge to mate thus they will quickly find a suitable partner.
They normally will feel the heat during dry season. This is when you should play the mating sound then. Mix the mating sound with baby sound to be more effective.

c) The Colony Sound.

Colony sound is something that usually happened when lots of birds are making noises while they started to built their nests. This is more like a flock of birds in a room making noises while each of them are building their nest to start the eggs production.
This happen during the early part of the rainy season. Many of these wild birds will start to built new nests while others will repair their old nests.
The noise is typical and you can easily differentiate between mating sound.

d) The Pack Leader sound.

This is something that I have come across during my listening to my own BH noises.
Among all the sounds made during the arrival from the day's hunting there is a leader in the crowd that seem to give a kind of sound that will be able to command respect to the rest of the birds. He, I think, is the colony leader.
His sound will be heard as a specific time of the evening and when he make his sound, the rest will stay shut up for a period of time. It is more like saying "Shut up please". Event those small babies will shut up too.
This sound is something new and I have yet to find ready made one that fit this description.


By reading the above you can now figure out how to strategies your internal sound selection methods.

Remember play the right sound during the right period of the breeding cycle.

You need to make close observations when they will start to mate and when they will built their nest and then when those babies will hatch out of those two eggs laid.

The best method to know if the sound is effective is to observe the birds reaction once the external sound stop playing in the evening. If the moment the sound stop, the birds started to rush out of your BH, that mean the internal sound suck. Change them immediately.