I put this up on "bird forum" a few days back where it got a bit of
interest, so I thought I'd put it up here.
Those of you who have seen the answers - please keep quiet and let the
others struggle.
There's now a pretty standard list of Australian Bird names that were
standardised by Birds Australia (RAOU) and which are used in all the Field
Guides, but a wide variety of names have been used in the past.
I'll give a few below that may provide a challenge to link to the current
names. They're taken from "The Illustrated Dictionary of Australian Birds
by Common Name" by Jim Macdonald. Jim was a former head of the Bird
Department of the British Museum, he retired to Brisbane and sadly passed
away a couple of years ago.
Please suggest the current names for:
Australian flower-swallow
Bank diamond
Betcherrygah
betting bird
black bell-magpie
black redbill
I'll give the correct names in a week or so, the prize is ..... the
satisfaction of knowing!
Pete
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