unusual visitor

[Martin Butterfield <>]

Surely "uncommon" plugs the gap rather nicely?  From the Cambridge Dictionary:

1. Common  found frequently in many places or among many people:
   
2. Uncommon:  not seen, happening, or experienced often:
   
3. Rare:  not common; very unusual: (emphasis added)
   

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

On 3 August 2018 at 13:44, Philip Veerman <> wrote:

Good question and the issue is largely semantics. It is sad and strange that there is no English word that bridges the gap between “common” and “rare”. We only have access to a hot potch of poorly defined adjectival additions like “un, moderately, rather,” etc that vaguely fill in gaps.

 

As for kookaburras, they are very territorial and need suitable habitat and food (that may not be suburban), so the presence of sufficient suitable habitat is going to impact on where they are seen.

 

Philip

 

From: John Harris [mailto:m("biblesociety.org.au","john.harris");" target="_blank">john.harris@biblesociety.org.au] Sent: Friday, 3 August, 2018 11:21 AM            To: Robert Parnell            Cc: chatline
Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] unusual visitor

 

Are kookaburras becoming so unusual in Canberra that the sighting of them is important enough to report? The Report still calls them Common Breeding Resident. But also notes that there is a slow decline.  Is the fact that I see and hear them almost every day from my place (Nicholls, backing onto Ginninderra Creek) deluding me into thinking they are still common?  At what point do the editors list them as Uncommon Breeding Resident?

 

On 2 August 2018 at 22:38, Philip Veerman <> wrote:

I heard a kookaburra at home (Kambah) last week. Also unusual, though not a first. They are regularly perched on the light poles on Tuggeranong Parkway adjacent to Mt Taylor.

 From: Robert Parnell <>Date: Friday, 3 August 2018 at 9:44 amTo: sandra henderson <>Cc: chatline <m("canberrabirds.org.au","canberrabirds");" target="_blank">org.au>Subject: Re: [canberrabirds] unusual visitor

 

I have seen kookaburras in Telopia Park, Barton on two occasions in the last week or two.

 

On 2 August 2018 at 22:38, Philip Veerman <> wrote:

I heard a kookaburra at home (Kambah) last week. Also unusual, though not a first. They are regularly perched on the light poles on Tuggeranong Parkway adjacent to Mt Taylor.

 

From: sandra henderson [ Sent: Thursday, 2 August, 2018 4:10 PMTo: Cog lineSubject: [canberrabirds] unusual visitor

 went into my front yard right now to find out what the commotion was about - and found a kookaburra sitting in my leafless ash tree, just metres from the front doot. The first one in my yard that I can ever remember. The local noisy miners, magpies and pied currawongs are not happy!

sandra h