Nice
shots of Yellow Rosella,
After
all these years I still remain annoyed at the loss of the once-common names like
Yellow Rosella, Adelaide Rosella etc. I fully understand the technical taxonomic
reasons and the requirement for standard terminology. But the ordinary person
like me wishes they could still say they saw a Yellow Rosella and not the rather
wordy ‘yellow form of the Crimson Rosella’ which I am now obligated to say. With
other birds with multiple races like say the Eastern Rosella, I can just say
Eastern Rosella and only if necessary refer to the particular race. But
with the Crimson Rosella I always have to qualify because the presumption is
that I am talking about the crimson-coloured race. Now before all you experts
jump on me and tell me that of course you would make no such presuption,
admit the truth: If Davis Rees had said he had nice photos of the Crimson
Rosella, how many of you would have opened the file.?
Bring back the Yellow Rosella, I say.
And a few other birds too while they are at it. But I won’t mention them. (Goes off stage left
mumbling incoherently to himself as no one is listening…)
From: David Rees <>
Date: Friday, 23 January 2015 5:49 pm
To: chatline <>
Subject: [canberrabirds] Not local - nice
closeup film of the yellow form of the Crimson Rosella
Something for this evening - you don't have to go too far from
Canberra to see these, round Gundagai in my experience, but they can be much
more invisible than the red ones we get around Canberra.
David
