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| To: | John Leonard <> |
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| Subject: | Gang-gang RFI |
| From: | Dr Richard Nowotny <> |
| Date: | Wed, 04 Jun 2003 20:15:50 +1000 |
At 00:08 04/06/2003 +0000, you wrote:Gang-gang is from the Wirajuduri name for the species 'Ngang-Ngang', an onomatopoeic description of its call. [Do you think it is onomatopoeic of its call (described in Pizzey & Knight as "short, raven-like growls when feeding; in flight, loud, stuttered, creaky growls, with rising inflection, like rusty hinge")?] |
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