Hi all – and thanks Geoffrey. I wonder what we would suggest as our least favourite Australian bird…?
‘None’, of course, is one possible answer. Starlings and Indian Mynas are ruled out as not Australian. I would have to propose the Australian Magpie as my least favorite, simply because I really don’t look forward to being swooped in spring – and I’ve been swooped more aggressively in Canberra, whether on foot or cycling, than anywhere else. Perhaps last spring (my first spring in Canberra) was particularly bad, or perhaps I live in a particular aggressive part of the Magpie gene-pool…?
Steve Read
From: Geoffrey Dabb [
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Subject: FW: [canberrabirds] Favourite bird?
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
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.
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