FW: FW: [canberrabirds] Favourite bird?

["Geoffrey Dabb" <>]

As so many responses show, Con, you can make a case for almost any species, based on a selection of its appealing qualities.  I occasionally feed the resident currawongs and admire the velvety black plumage set off by that glowing yellow eye.  They take their morsel with a soft grateful ‘quenk’, as if to distinguish themselves from their marauding kin, which are so much in evidence at the moment.  

 

From: Con Boekel [
Sent: Friday, 26 July 2013 4:35 PM
To:
Subject: Re: FW: [canberrabirds] Favourite bird?

 

Geoffrey

I refrained from answering because of the shame factor.

Had I been forced to make a choice, I would have chosen the Pied Currawong on the basis that winners are grinners and losers can suit themselves.

Con

On 26/07/2013 4:25 PM, Geoffrey Dabb wrote:

Thank you all for your thoughts on this.  The meaning of ‘favourite’ was left to you, and of course there were different perspectives on that.  Allowing each viewpoint one vote, that vote was split between any nominated equal favourites, with the following result:

 

Yellow-tailed Black-Cockatoo                    3.3

Superb Fairy-wren                                          3

A Magpie                                                             2.7

Yellow-rumped Thornbill                            2

Major Mitchell Cockatoo                              2

Gang-gang Cockatoo                                      1.53

Eastern Yellow-robin                                     1.5

 

Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater, Tawny Frogmouth, Superb Lyrebird, Galah, Red-backed Fairy-wren, Brolga, Double-barred Finch, Night Parrot, Brown Thornbill, Rufous Whistler, Avocet:  one vote each

 

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Bush Stone-curlew                                         0.5

Apostlebird                                                        0.5

Grey Butcherbird                                             0.2

Eastern Rosella                                                 0.2

Crested Pigeon                                                 0.2

 

The result is a hung parliament with the birds below the line controlling the fate of the government

 

 

 

 

From: Geoffrey Dabb
Sent: Wednesday, 24 July 2013 8:46 AM
To: m("canberrabirds.org.au","canberrabirds");">
Subject: [canberrabirds] Favourite bird?

 

Many of you chatliners out there will have a favourite Australian bird.  If so, I would like to know what it is (to see if there is any consensus, or surprises).  Need not be local.