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All good points, James. Ian is coming from many years as
a botany populist where he is pestered by calls of 'What's this flower,Ian?' and
'What's that tree, Ian?' - and he has commented several times that
he sometimes does a bit of research and gives an answer, with the feeling that
the questioner will forget what he/she has been told a few minutes
later.
Your own questions are interesting, and usually raise a
point or two. Some by others do make one wonder if they own a field guide
as well as a computer.
On the calls, the suggestion about the GG was serious:
They have a range of little conversational groans and wheezes that they give
when perched and invisible. You're in a position to reject the suggestion,
of course.
On the parrots, I believe that many of the
contact-and-chatter and growl-and-complain and begging sounds are not all that
well known. They might depend on age. I don't have a good ear,
but a lot of these sounds seem fairly generalised and similar to me.
Then again, perhaps mimicry could be involved. In short, dunno.
I must say, your photo work has atmosphere. You have
caught the essentially jurassic character of the EWD
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