Re: FW: [canberrabirds] Noisy Narrabundah Hill today

[Sue Lashko <>]

but the editor of Gang-gang would be very appreciative if contributors checked spelling and capitalisation.  Most common errors are:

• Willy (should be Willie) Wagtail and
• omitting capitals in Black-Cockatoo and Bronze-Cuckoo

Be kind to the editor!

Sue

On Sat, Oct 31, 2015 at 5:06 PM, Geoffrey Dabb <> wrote:

It might seem niggling, but if the point is not made a widespread misnaming is surprisingly contagious.   The (harmless) misspelling ‘Schrenk’s Bittern’ was allowed to find its way into the official Australian list.  It was very difficult to correct, requiring a formal decision on a renaming.  In the meantime international lists noted that ‘another name’ of Schrenck’s Bittern was  ‘Schrenk’s Bittern’ (in Australia).  On the other hand, thick-fingered errors and the like are completely harmless and even to be encouraged in the interes of quikly exchanging informatio about our bids.

 

From: casburnj [
Sent: Saturday, 31 October 2015 4:42 PM
To: 'Geoffrey Dabb';
Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Noisy Narrabundah Hill today

 

Many thanks Geoffrey and Phillip

I will try to do better!.

Kind regards

Jean

 

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

 

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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