Hi all, An organisation that I have an association with called Big Scrub Landcare (https://www.bigscrubrainforest.org/) is looking for some photos of birds and any other fauna that were taken in the Byron Bay region in NSW, preferably in areas of remnant Big Scrub (which is the critically endangered sub-tropical lowland rainforest in the region). They . . . → Read More: Photo request and event info (Big Scrub, northern NSW)
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Dear Fellow Birders, I was hoping someone with really good audio bird ID abilities could help me ID a bird that my friend recorded in Melbourne in Clifton Hill along the Merri creek (it is near the Yarra Bend Park, not far from the CBD). Here is about a minute of recording: jpolak.org/tmp/unknownbirdsound.mp3 He hears . . . → Read More: Melbourne mystery sound Hi all, The Channel-bills and Curlews have arrived in Como (Woronora River, southern Sydney) within 48 hours of each other. Paul. “New research shows lyrebirds move more litter and soil than any other digging animal” see phys.org/news/2020-09-lyrebirds-litter-soil-animal.html Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org in Norway see www.eenews.net/stories/1063712423 Birding-Aus mailing list Birding-Aus@birding-aus.org To change settings or unsubscribe visit: birding-aus.org/mailman/listinfo/birding-aus_birding-aus.org Classical Latin pronounced both ‘c’ and ‘g’ as hard letters. ‘Ker or Ger’. Ecclesiastical Latin used by the Catholic Church for the last millennium as is modern Italian is spoken, changes both the ‘c’ and the ‘g’ to ‘ch’ and ‘jer‘ if they followed by an ‘i’ or a ‘e’. Take you pick how . . . → Read More: Jerry Has Gone Ah, the Pub fights with the Schoolroom. Just quickly, these are latinised names, even if from Greek. The pronunciation guide in the 1926 RAOU checklist (useful on stress but regards ‘g’ as so obvious it is not mentioned) cautioned: ‘The pronunciation here indicated is the English, not the ‘Continental’ or ‘Roman’ pronunciation of . . . → Read More: FW: Jer-RIG-onee – or Gur-RIG-onee – or GRIG-onee? (But not Jerry-gone.) Just looked at the ge-s in the dictionary and amongst the first are gear, geek and gecko. So ge doesn’t always mean a soft g. JL On Sat, 29 Aug 2020 at 08:09 Casimir Liber <casliber0134@gmail.com> wrote: In English the 'G' would be soft, hence 'J' as initial sound. I have never heard anyone . . . → Read More: Jer-RIG-onee – or Gur-RIG-onee – or GRIG-onee? (But not Jerry-gone.) In English the 'G' would be soft, hence 'J' as initial sound. I have never heard anyone pronounce it with a hard 'G' Cas On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 11:47 PM Richard Nowotny <richard.nowotny@bigpond.com> wrote: This pronunciation question seems to have been a contentious subject for Australian birders since the common name . . . → Read More: Jer-RIG-onee – or Gur-RIG-onee – or GRIG-onee? (But not Jerry-gone.) |
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