Well spotted, all. I thought ‘chough bird’ was
an ad hoc coining to help the viewer understand what they were talking about.
Thinking all the time, these scriptwriters.
Other recorded local names for the species are: Chank,
Chank Daw, Cliff Daw, Cornish Chough, Cornish Daw, Gesner’s Wood Crow, Hermit
Crow, Killingcrew, Long-billed Chough, Market-Jew Crow, Red-legged Crow,
Red-legged Jackdaw, Red-Shanks, Sea Crow.
For those completely in the dark, 730pm next Saturday ABCTV will
see the threatened resumption of this particular chough-adorned episode of the
inexplicably prime-time-consuming provincial medifarce. Bring back
Blackadder.
From: Wendy Whitham
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Sent: Monday, 10 March 2008 12:42 PM
To: Philip Veerman
Cc:
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] The privatisation of the wetlands
Yes,
I saw it. I thought it was interesting that the characters referred
to them as "chough birds", not just "choughs". Maybe
that's a Cornwall thing.
