From: "alan morris" <>
Subject: Baldcoots
Hi Everyone,
My dad was a rice farmer, I can't remember him shooting swamphens. Ducks,
wedgies and brown snakes used to get short shift however. How our thinking
has changed.
Bruce Cox.
> 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
>
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