I agree with Geoffrey of course, to the extent to that of drawing attention to halting an ongoing error so that it is not prolonged. One previous person who
I corrected on the same issue who knew that what he sent out was wrong, pointed out that the computer spell checker (not him) made the mistake which he had missed, as it did not accept “Horsfield”. That it did accept “horse” and “field” is only borderline
relevant. Beyond that, this is just a chat line open to all levels of contributors and minor typos or edit errors can be ignored and this is not a formal forum and if we understand the purpose (even including humour) that is generally OK. Beyond that there
is also another issue that the right name is Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoo. The presence of capitalisation and positioning of any hyphen and apostrophe in names of bird species each contributes to the meaning of the name, to make it right or wrong. Even in the
case of King-Parrot that probably should be King’s Parrot, what is right has become quite confused......
Philip
From: Geoffrey Dabb [
Sent: Saturday, 31 October 2015 9:15 AM
To:
Subject: FW: [canberrabirds] Noisy Narrabundah Hill today
Can we stamp out this outbreak of Horsefield’s virus before it spreads further? The name is ‘HORSFIELD’S’ - for Dr Thomas Horsfield (1773-1859)
From: Virginia Abernathy [
Sent: Friday, 30 October 2015 8:54 PM
To: casburnj; canberrabirds; jandaholland
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] Noisy Narrabundah Hill today
Hi Iliana,
I don't know if you saw this email yet, but they mention seeing several yellow-rumped thornbill and a Horsefield's bronze cuckoo fledgling of a yellow-rumped thornbill
at Narrabundah Hill. Don't know if that's too far for you or not, but thought you might be interested.
Cheers,
Virginia
From: casburnj <>
Sent: 30 October 2015 15:21
To: canberrabirds; jandaholland
Subject: [canberrabirds] Noisy Narrabundah Hill today
41 Species on a warm sunny morning.
Of these the most interesting were;
2 Tawny Frogmouth (ON), 2 Horsefields Bronze Cuckoo, one of which was chased by 2 Speckled Warbler, the other dependent upon Yellow-rumped Thornbill.
There were plenty of Yellow-rumped Thornbill, an estimate of 14 Rufous Songlark (quietening down as the morning wore on), 3 Varied Sitella, 7 Black-faced Cuckoo Shrike and 2 Sacred Kingfisher appearing to be a pair in the same vicinity. There were approximately
6 White-winged Triller some of which appeared to be in dispute over territory. Unfortunately Common Myna have increased in number to about 8 and Starlings are breeding successfully. No noisy Myna have been seen to date in this region!
A pleasing morning.
Jean
|
|
