By all means. And of course you will be referring to the night-heron as the
Nanking night-heron for consistency?
Gordon
> On 25 Feb 2019, at 9:29 PM, Laurie Knight <> wrote:
>
> G’day Anthea
>
> People under the age of 60 don’t use the term brush to describe native
> vegetation in Queensland (I suspect the term brush is an antique term used by
> southern colonists). The megapodes in SEQ have always been Bush Turkeys in
> my lexicon and I will continue to drop the redundant r when I refer to them.
>
> Regards, Laurie
>
>> On 25 Feb 2019, at 7:57 pm, Anthea Fleming <> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Laurie,
>> I have seen a domestic Turkey hen dust bathing - don't recall if she dug a
>> hole or not.
>> Bush turkey - do you mean the Brush Turkey, the megapode with yellow or
>> purple wattle round its neck, or what my grandfather called a Bush Turkey
>> or Plains Turkey, i.e. Bustard?
>> I have no idea if either dust-bathes. If i remember I might look up HANZAB.
>> As a member of the WA Geological Survey, 1910 to 1935, Grandpa ate a lot of
>> Bustards. They were a very welcome change from a diet of tinned bully beef.
>>
>> Anthea fleming
>>
>>
>> n 25/02/2019 8:09 PM, Laurie Knight wrote:
>>> G’day
>>>
>>> I’ve been coming across some odd holes in the bush tracks in my
>>> neighbourhood. They are about 30 cm across and 15 cm deep [not your
>>> average bandicoot or pig excavation].
>>>
>>> I came across a female looking bush turkey sitting in a fresh hole, dug
>>> about 100 metres from the nearest active mound. It looked rather dusty,
>>> and I suspect it was dusting. Is this a common turkey behaviour?
>>>
>>> Regards, Laurie.
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