G'day fellow birders
Inger has made a couple of points that I think are very valid, both in
Australia and up here in PNG.
I print off some of my bird photos onto A3+ photo paper and laminate them. I
include a little text and place them on public noticeboards. This creates
interest and comment and we are at the stage of developing more permanent
interest and commitment to looking after the wildlife. This is something PNG
has a great need of, but attitudes are changing for the better. I use the
names from the standard field guide as the locals already know their names and
expect us to have different names.
Incidentally your name of "redbills" is similar to "red combs" the name widely
used up here for Purple Swamphens - a bird that gets eaten along with most
other species on this island. I recall that in Fiji all birds have indigenous
names except five that were too small to eat and they all got clumped under the
name "gigi"
Happy watching and communicating
Mike Tarburton
Dr Mike Tarburton
Dean: School of Science and Technology
Pacific Adventist University
PMB, Boroko
Papua New Guinea
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