The link worked perfect for me and I found the write up on the Noisy Miner, a
bird I see and hear every day, most informative.
Jude
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Torr <>
To: Cas Liber <>
Cc: birding-aus <>
Sent: Sat, Jan 21, 2012 10:44 am
Subject: historical derivation of common name of noisy miner
When I went to the Wikipedia home page to search for Noisy Miner (as the
ink did not initially seem to work - I think it was just rather slow) I
iscovered the "Featured Article" was the Variegated Fairy-wren!
On 21 January 2012 08:12, Cas Liber <> wrote:
> I suppose it arose out of the bird's dark grey and black face resembling a
coal-miner's blackened face (?) but have never seen it written, apart from
gould's notes that the term "miner" came from Tasmania originally. Anyone
seen anything written? Also for such a common bird, I've not seen much
aboriginal material, either names or folklore about it....
A couple of us have been developing the Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy_Miner
Cas
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