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| Subject: | Baldcoots |
| From: | "alan morris" <> |
| Date: | Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:49:30 +1000 |
Hi Birders,It worries me that I am so old that I can remember when rice and other farmers called the Purple Swamp-hen, "Bald Coots". Indeed NPWS would issue licenses to shoot them for crop protection and they were always referred to by the farmers as "Bald Coots". I have JD.McDonald (1987) "The Illustrated Dictorionary of Australian Birds by Common Name" on my side. See pp 22 viz "Bald Coot (See Swamphen). Popular name commonly used, source not known; from bald appearance due to bare frontal shield extending to crown". No further arguement!Alan Morris -------------------------------------------- Birding-Aus is now on the Web at www.birding-aus.org -------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send the message 'unsubscribe birding-aus' (no quotes, no Subject line) to |
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