I should leave it there, but I will explain the problem in case someone is going to spend time looking into it. I go to the COG site – Publications – CBN. In the search box, I
type ‘veerman honeyeater’. Among various interesting items is one in CBN 1 May 2022. I click on this and receive the below response.
From: Philip Veerman <>
Sent: Sunday, 8 March 2026 6:01 PM
To: 'Geoffrey Dabb' <>; 'shorty' <>; 'ben milbourne' <>
Cc: 'Canberra birds' <>
Subject: RE: [Canberrabirds] GangGang Mar26 issue
The question was about Gang-gang, not CBN. I just tried. The CBN, is available but not the March Gang-gang (earlier ones are). It would appear to be a settings
error, unless there is another problem .
About the missing word “be”, I would like to think that is just an original wording error or typo, rather than a tradition. I have never noticed this.
Philip
From: Canberrabirds
On Behalf Of Geoffrey Dabb via Canberrabirds
Sent: Sunday, 8 March, 2026 4:36 PM
To: 'shorty' <>; 'ben milbourne' <m("hotmail.com","milbourneben");">>
Cc: 'Canberra birds' <>
Subject: Re: [Canberrabirds] GangGang Mar26 issue
It seems to be a navigation issue. That has been happening recently when I try to bring up a CBN piece from a search on the website, but you can access the relevant CBN issue without difficulty. It is COG
tradition to omit the ‘be’ in this context.
From: Canberrabirds <>
On Behalf Of shorty via Canberrabirds
Sent: Sunday, 8 March 2026 3:29 PM
To: ben milbourne <>
Cc: Canberra birds <>
Subject: Re: [Canberrabirds] GangGang Mar26 issue
That is odd as it was available the other day when I looked at it?
Also odd that the word be is missing between the words to and viewed? Hacked perhaps?
On Sun, Mar 8, 2026 at 3:13 PM ben milbourne via Canberrabirds <> wrote:
Curious whether there is a reason for why the current March issue of
Gang Gang
is restricted as a "protected file and only available to viewed by Committee Members".
