When I was at Cheynes Beach last year I was chatting with a botanist who
told me that she's seen a Ground Parrot at one of the caravan sites (Ground
Parrots have been seen around there in the past, but not recently). I
rushed over and discovered and discovered an Elegant Parrot on the ground.
Jeremy
On 10 April 2013 09:54, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
> I have read several ornithological books lately which use lower case for
> common names. Not surprising really, as many users of the English language
> are so challenged by it, they would not know whether to insert, wear, or
> eat a gerund, let alone when to capitalise a word. My theory is, that it is
> the publishers trying to save on ink costs. Many a little makes a muckle.
>
> Carl Clifford
>
> On 10/04/2013, at 8:13, Dave Torr <> wrote:
>
> > And still some publications refuse to use capital letters!
> >
> > On 9 April 2013 18:09, Philip Veerman <> wrote:
> >
> >> May be and we can hope and good not to give up. I don't know either
> way. Of
> >> course the issue would be, is he seeing Night Parrots or is he seeing
> night
> >> parrots. As in is it that species or some other species flushed from the
> >> ground at night that may be a parrot and thus given that name.
> Presumably
> >> lots of birds roost on the ground and is he identifying them as
> separate?
> >> Surely most birds roosting on the ground would flush in front of a
> >> nocturnal
> >> grader. It is worth ascertaining what other birds he sees in that
> >> situation.
> >> If he is calling all (or even a large proportion of) birds seen that
> way as
> >> being Night Parrots, then they probably aren't.
> >>
> >> Not that different, I once heard a NP Ranger in a Victorian coastal park
> >> asked whether there were Ground Parrots around. His answer delivered
> with
> >> some amazement at how dumb the question was: yes ground parrots are all
> >> over
> >> the place, like these and pointed to Crimson Rosellas feeding on the
> ground
> >> in the picnic area. Without the capital letters his answer was correct.
> >>
> >> Philip
> >>
> >>
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