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Pied Crow Strike - SMH

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Subject: Pied Crow Strike - SMH
From: "Troy Mutton" <>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 11:00:03 +1100
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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