I wondered the other day why Red Wattlebird doesn't have a hyphen???
Its only the wattle that is red, not the bird. Should it be Red-wattled
bird, or Red-wattled Wattledbird. ; )
Peter Shute <>
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Tony Russell <>, "'Birding-aus (E-mail)'"
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RE: [Birding-Aus] Hyphens and "wrens"
Thanks, Tony. I knew someone would know.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Russell
Sent: Tuesday, 1 December 2009 10:42 AM
To: Peter Shute; 'Birding-aus (E-mail)'
Subject: Hyphens and "wrens"
No no no Peter, they ran out of hyphens.
-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Peter Shute
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 10:05 AM
To: Birding-aus (E-mail)
Subject: Hyphens and "wrens"
I never realised there's a hyphen in "fairy-wren", and "emu-wren" too,
till I saw the responses to my recent posting in the never ending Jabiru
discussion. They don't put a hyphen in grasswren, fernwren, heathwren or
scrubwren, and I just assumed none of them had one.
Does anyone know the reasons for this? Surely it's not just the result of
some random decisions.
Peter Shute==========www.birding-aus.org
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