Hi birders,
Read this bit on the SMH just now -
http://www.smh.com.au/national/its-our-own-strain-of-strine-habib-20090308-8sgx.html?page=-1
about ¾ down.
""Yakka", from the Yagara language of Brisbane, is one of the few commonly used
Aboriginal words, along with "jackaroo", probably a Brisbane word for a pied
crow strike, one of the country's noisiest birds."
Does anyone want to have a go at what a "Pied Crow Strike" is? I'm thinking it
must be magpie-lark (or mudlark, or murray magpie, or possibly now "pied crow
strike"), currawong, or magpie. I wouldn't think any of them to be among the
country's noisiest birds - surely the sulphur-crested cockatoos have got that
down.
I can't recall if this has been discussed here before - and the archive's down.
Cheers
Troy
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