National bird

[brian fleming <>]

House Sparrows have been successfully excluded from Western Australia!  
And they are getting rarer every year in the rest of the continent.
Anthea Fleming

On 23/03/2015 3:18 PM, Andrew Thelander wrote:
> Hi all
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> In Sweden, the Swedish Ornithological Society (SOF) is currently organising a 
> voluntary vote to determine the national bird of Sweden. This was done once 
> before in the early 1960s by a newspaper and the blackbird was elected! This 
> shows that the national bird does not have to be an endemic but a species that 
> people can relate to in their daily lives.
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> For Australia, my suggestion for the national bird is the House sparrow. Like 
> most of us, its ancestors came from Britain and Europe and adapted to a strange 
> new land. Its chirp is familiar to us all. It breeds prolifically just like us 
> and eats just about anything it can scrounge from Big Mac crusts to discarded 
> diet biscuits. I bet it already has a local dialect now different from those 
> back in the Old Dart. And its limited colours would save on printing costs in 
> this eco-friendly age.
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> cheers
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