G'day Laurie,
What are the distinguishing features between the Indian and Australian
birds.
Cheers Jeff.
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of L&L Knight
Sent: Thursday, 19 November 2009 3:11 PM
To: Birding Aus
Subject: Indigenous names for the Jabiru / BNS
I would like to see a list of indigenous names that the various
Aboriginal groups had for the Aussie Stork. It is quite possible that
one of them would fit the bill of providing a suitably iconic name for
our attractive wetland overseer.
Regards, Laurie.
On 19/11/2009, at 2:01 PM, Alistair McKeough wrote:
> Yes, it has.
>
> In brief and from memory, Jabiru is a South American name and there is
> another bird bearing that nomenclature so the international types
> want it
> changed.
>
> I think Jabiru is a wonderful name and the lament the ridiculous
> suggestion
> that any purported confusion with some overseas species nobody in
> Australia
> gives a hoot about is sufficient reason to change it.
>
> Pee Wee. Jabiru. Wonderful stuff and nomenclature I will personally
> continue
> to use.
>
>
>
> 2009/11/19 Peter Shute <>
>
>> I think this has been discussed here several times before, so a
>> search for
>> jabiru and satin in the archives might tell you all there is to know.
>>
>> Peter Shute
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [mailto:
>> On Behalf Of
>> Sent: Thursday, 19 November 2009 2:21 PM
>> To: Greg & Val Clancy
>> Cc: birding aus
>> Subject: Re: Re: [Birding-Aus] One arm point and beyond(dampier
>> peninsula,
>> near Broome
>>
>>
>> G'day Gret,
>>
>> That's pretty interesting. I've not known about the origins behind
>> the name
>> Jabiru. I've always assumed it was an Aboriginal name, it certainly
>> sounds
>> like it could be an Aboriginal word.
>>
>> How was the proposed new name of Satin Stork arrived at? Sorry if
>> this is
>> common knowledge, but I'm not very up to date on the process
>> associated with
>> how names are decided.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mark
>>
>>
>>> Greg & Val Clancy <> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Gary,
>>>
>>> I read you post with interest and noted that you hate using the name
>>> 'Black-necked Stork'. The neck is actually black, with a blue-green
>>> sheen, and although probably not the most appropriate name for the
>>> species it has been in use in Asia and Australia since at least the
>>> late 1880's. The bird books that I used when starting out birding
>>> many years back all called it "Jabiru' and that is what I knew it as
>>> for many years. Having recently completed my PhD studies on the
>>> species I am now a strong advocate for not calling it "Jabiru'. The
>>> reasons for this are: it is not a Jabiru - a Jabiru is a South
>>> American stork species which has only a few similarities to our
>>> elegant bird; 'Jabiru' is a Tupi-Guarani name for the species which
>>> means 'swollen neck', referring to its habit of inflating its bald
>>> neck pouch, very different to our slender necked species; the south
>>> American bird has precedence over the name which is also its generic
>>> name.
>>>
>>> When I hear or read the name 'Back-necked Stork' I visualise the
>>> beautiful, elegant bird that it is I don't lament the loss of a
>>> totally inappropriate name for Australia's only stork species.
>>> However if 'Black-necked Stork' is too much to bear you will be
>>> happy
>>> to know that when the New Guinea and Australian populations of this
>>> species are separated out from the Asian populations, which is
>>> likely
>>> in the future, the name 'Satin Stork' will,
>>>
>>> hopefully, be applied to our birds. This name received support from
>>> the
>>>
>>> Birds Australia Common Names Committee but it will only be with
>>> widespread acceptance that it will become 'set in stone.' So far I
>>> have received a
>>>
>>> large amount of support for the name. I hope you will also
>>> support it.
>>>
>>>
>>> Greg Clancy
>>> Ecologist
>>> Coutts Crossing
>>> NSW
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