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Re: blackface

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Subject: Re: blackface
From: "Mike Tarburton" <>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 09:04:22 +1000
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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