OK, well there it is, not exactly my
choice but the decision of the majority is binding. I’m forwarding
it as an attachment in case anyone wants to print it (this version is fairly
low resolution though)
From: Martin and
Frances [
Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 7:15
AM
To: canberrabirds
Subject: [canberrabirds] The most
typical birds
The time has come to reveal all! Following my last
exhortation I received a further submission which successfully dynamited the
logjammed pack of 7. The top 5 are thus:
Gang-gang clearly in 1st place (with 8 votes from 12
submissions)
Yellow-faced honeyeater (4) and
Sulphur crested
cockatoo (4)
In total 22 species were proposed. Of those not
successful, 6 scored 3 nods, 3 got 2 and 8 just snuck in with 1 vote.
Common myna was very unlucky (about time the rat with wings
had some bad luck) since while it was nominated by Mark
Clayton he also said that if we stuck with native Canberra birds (I'm
paraphrasing a bit there, because I have lost Mark's actual message) ) he'd
replace it with an alternate. I used executive privilege to make that
substitution.
Most submitters scored 2 or 3 birds. The best effort
was by Wendy Whitham with a big 4!
