There have been quite a few attempts, Tom,
so I’d better close it off. Like all good quizzes there has to be a
bit of controversy, and this came to light when Steve Holliday pointed out that
his printing-out of the card revealed a bit of dark/light shading in some
figures, so apparently I have failed to put on enough layers of
black. That would have been a matter of a couple of button clicks, so if
there’s ever another one this will be attended to. I’ve
deliberately put back a little shading on some figures in this version: -
The answers are:
1
Peaceful
Dove (uncommon r/v)
2
Dusky
Woodswallow
3
Olive-backed
Oriole
4
Eastern Spinebill
5
Blue-faced
Honeyeater (very uncommon visitor)
6
Willie
Wagtail
7
A Magpie
8
L Kookaburra
9
Eastern Rosella
10 Red-rumped Parrot
11 N Friarbird (fledglings)
12 Darter
13 Gang-gang
14 P Currawong
15 Crested Pigeon
15A
Latham’s Snipe
16 Rainbow Bee-eater
17 Little Friarbird (uncommon r/v)
18 Grey Teal
18A
B-fronted Dotterel
19 Red Wattlebird
20 Spotted Turtledove (uncommon introduction)
21 Great Cormorant
22 Brown Falcon
23 Superb Parrot
24 Silver Gull
25 Y-t Black-Cockatoo
With the admitted ‘shading’
assistance, Steve got 21 - as did David
Cook. However the best effort was by Mat Gilfedder, who
came in with an extraordinary 24, whether with any image-manipulation or not I cannot
say, but a fine performance in any event. The most troublesome image was
the Wille Wagtail No 6, the subject of a variety of stabs. Only Philip
Veerman got this.
From: tom green [
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 6:14
PM
To:
Subject: [canberrabirds] Christmas
card
I think the card needs more work Geoffrey.
