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Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message: > From: Tone < tone@lis.net.au> > Date: 24 January 2017 at 20:15:29 AEDT > To: Tony Russell < pratincole08@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] names > > Hi Tony > I am neither an academic nor a re-namer, I don’t have a trumpet to blow, and I certainly don’t . . . → Read More: Fwd: names A voice from afar, I have followed these discussions with great interest. Similar discussions have been fought in most countries and languages. In Norway the name of the Common Swift was officially changed from the old tårnsvale (=tower swallow) to tårnseiler (tower swift) ‘because it is not a swallow’. Fortunately, in my eyes, they stopped . . . → Read More: common names It is still frustrating to see people who only think about what a bird is called in Australia, even if it has a much wider distribution, or if there is a different species with that name. This is what got us into this situation in the first place. We have to accept gerygone. There are . . . → Read More: names Over the past couple of years, when I’ve seen a Common Bronzewing sitting on a nest, it has always been a male. Initially I was just interested to know that duties were shared, but now I’m wondering, do males do the daylight hours, and females the nights, or have I just seen a chance pattern! . . . → Read More: Common Bronzewings on nests The following is a digest of Sightings Reported on Birdpedia for the period Monday, January 23, 2017 to Sunday, January 29, 2017: Area: SA Location: Murray mouth Hindmarsh Island Fairy Tern (Sterna nereis) (5) Birds were roosting with Crested and Caspian Terns on sand spits Sanderling (Calidris alba) (30) Birds were feeding along waters edge . . . → Read More: Birdpedia – Australia – Weekly Digest Once again a few academics, mostly not Australian, if not Un-Australian, are foisting otherworldly names onto us Aussie birders. Common names , NOT ENGLISH names, for Australian birds are names commonly used by about 99% of Australian birdwatchers for our birds. It is appalling that colourless English names like Black-necked Stork have been . . . → Read More: names Cherry tomatoes, luxury! Once the possums and rats have finished them its over to the chilli for a bit of tex-mex. Nothing is left over this side of the Georges. Or is that tex-wall-mex now? —–Original Message—– From: Roger Giller [ wrote: > I sent this last Wednesday but it doesn’t seem to have . . . → Read More: FW: Lorikeet Die off I have a smallish Grevillea “Honey Gem” in my garden at Barden Ridge in southern Sydney. For the past 3-4 weeks we have had a high presence of Rainbow Lorikeets feeding on the dozen or so flowers, to the point where I wondered just how productive a single flower head can be. The plant would . . . → Read More: FW: Lorikeet Die off There seems to be have been a massive problem with flying foxes down the SE Coast attributed (I think) to a nectar-poor flowering season. Certainly I have noticed that despite masses of blossom on red and yellow box on our property they seem to have attracted few insects or honeyeaters (which has been suggested to . . . → Read More: FW: Lorikeet Die off I sent this last Wednesday but it doesn’t seem to have made it up. Ciao From: Chris Lloyd . . . → Read More: FW: Lorikeet Die off |
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