Until the Powerful Owl gets its own webcam and website, it would only
be an outside chance at a national winner...
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/extras/frodocam/default.htm
Cheers
Mat
On 5/31/07, Julian Robinson <> wrote:
It seems that everyone agrees that the Owl, because of its choice of
location, its name and its nuanced staying power (including clever trick of
disappearing for a while then reappearing) the owl is/was Canberra's Most
Famous Ever Bird. John Rawsthorne also maintains an alternative National
scoring methodology on which Canberra Owl scored a 45/70, just beating the
nearest contender "javan pond heron in Darwin" at 44, so it may be a
national winner as well.
I wasn't thinking that this bird would on its own drive people into joining
COG or to become environmentalists, but that the occasion could have been
used, as it partly was, to promote COG.
Is there a case for leveraging the exposure next time by inserting COG
promotional info along with identified COG expert analysis into press
reports and/or stationing volunteers with "COG" on their lapels at the bird
site (as was suggested by Anthony and Ian)? Or even for being more
pro-active and occasionally submitting similar stories with emphasis on
COG-the-club to media?
Besides that, from the number of non-bird people who knew about the owl and
mentioned it (and without exaggerating too much - with some awe and wonder),
this bird on its own must have raised public consciousness of birds in and
around Canberra. By incrementally influencing mindset, this could only help
in encouraging bird-protection support from within government and from the
public, in particular towards modifying and limiting development proposals
to take account of affected birds. The best and most topical example would
be Lower Molonglo (or 'Central Molonglo' as it's identified in the
proposal).
Julian
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