Urban Bush Thickknees

["Paul Dodd" <>]

Surely, as with anything, colloquialisms (or common names) change over time?

I don't know about anyone else, but I tend to hear good old Aussie expressions 
like "Fair Dinkum" less and less these days. I suspect that this is exactly the 
same with common names of birds and other creatures.

Paul Dodd
Docklands, Melbourne

-----Original Message-----
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 On Behalf Of Peter Shute
Sent: Thursday, 17 April 2008 8:00 PM
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Subject: Urban Bush Thickknees

Interesting about Cayley calling it Stone-curlew in 1946. My 1959 edition calls 
it Bush Curlew, or Stone Plover, Weeloo or Willaroo.  I can understand them 
changing the main name with the current fashion, but why fiddle with the 
alternative names?

Peter Shute


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