National Bird

This is really off topic……. What about all the hawks, swans and eagles supporters? (I’m in the former group.) We’re not all Collingwood……….Then there is the Geelong cats……. Nominations anyone? Then there is the women’s netball teams……… Hey Carl, we can stop nagging Canberra. People from outside Canberra should realise that almost all of the federal politicians are from and (allegedly) representing electorates far away from Canberra and are inflicted on us………. Canberra has probably the lowest representation of politicians in the federal parliament of the whole country. As for the Galah, I (and Chinese wife) reckon the main double note call of the Galah sounds a lot like the Chinese word for ‘thank you”. Philip —–Original Message—–From: Birding-Aus [mailto:birding-aus-bounces@birding-aus.org] On Behalf Of David Taylor Sent: Saturday, 21 March 2015 12:23 PM To: birding-aus@birding-aus.org Subject: [Birding-Aus] Fwd: National Bird Given its almost Australia wide distribution, urban and rural presence and striking plumage that would work well on crests etc I’d nominate the Australian Magpie as my pick as our National bird Cheers David Taylor > Nope we do not have an National bird or animal. Considering what has > been coming out of Canberra over the last few years, perhaps our > National Bird should be the Spangled Drongo. > > Carl Clifford > > >>> On 20 Mar 2015, at 7:10 pm, Martin Butterfield >>> <martinflab@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> I had assumed it was the Emu as it features on our Coat of Arms. >> However I can’t find anything authoritative which confirms this or >> offers an alternative. >> >> Surely we have one? If not, I cry ‘Shime, shime ” and ask what can >> be >> done and by whom to get one. (For various reasons, if starting from >> scratch, my pick would be Galah.) >> >> >> Martin Butterfield >> http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/