At 11:21 AM 9/03/2012, you wrote:
From among many informative graphics perpetrated over the years, I
have dug out this one for a re-airing, because it has a degree of
topicality, and shows the ephemeral character of political
undertakings. For those too young to remember that particular
summit (and there have been others) I attach the news item. The
question hanging in the air is: will the ACT now get its
brolgas? There are two reasons why this might be open to
doubt: first, the GFC and the issue about the surplus; secondly,
the ACT did actually have a couple of brolgas, on display some
years ago at Tidbinbilla, but traded them in for some other species
that was regarded as 'more appropriate'. This might have been the
well-known magpie-geese. This reminds me that too much time has
elapsed since someone asked whether the magpie-geese, or any of
them, are of natural occurrence. On a marginally related issue,
yesterday Elizabeth raised with me the matter of the feral goose
that haunts the eastern end of LBG. I think this is the one that
haunts the channel between the Molonglo and Jerra Creek and is
usually only seen by kayakers. There is a similar one on the
Q'beyan sewage ponds, and it would be no surprise if it had been
flushed out by the recent rain, but my belief, subject to
correction by goose specialists, is that the channel bird is a male
and the QBSW one is a female.
Geoffrey,
Well there's your next project. Matchmaking. We could then end up
with a whole colony of geese that future generations could ask
whether they were a natural occurrence. <grin>
Cheers.
Paul T.
Higgins, ACT
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