Charles Barrett, naturalist, journalist, author visited Canberra in 1921 to see Charles Bean, living at Tuggeranong homestead while writing the history of Australia in WW1. Barrett published in Emu an account of birds around the Tuggeranong
area. This contained the record of White-browed Babblers which ‘hopped from branch to branch of a tree almost within hand’s reach’. The sentence following that quoted is: ‘Bird life should remain plentiful on the plains and among the hills, long after the
city has been built and peopled’. The cockatoo Odd Ob is from Dr George Bennett, quoted by Barrett, following a visit to this area in the 1830s.
From: Geoffrey Dabb <>
Sent: Friday, 8 March 2019 10:19 AM
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Trivia question
Who wrote, and when –
‘Canberra’s future bird lovers will have a fair choice of places for their field days...’
and who, and when, before that, hereabouts, noted that ‘Black Cockatoos and White Cockatoos had become very numerous’. ???
