Hi Gary,
Having lived in Vic. & Qld. and travelled in all states I am fascinated by
local or vernacular names for birds. For instance I grew up in Victoria with
Mudlarks but here in Qld everyone talks about Peewees. My father always
talked about Blue Cranes (White-faced Heron) He also talked about Blue Jays
but they were Black-faced Cuckoo Shrikes. I had not heard of White-winged
Choughs being called Blue Jays. In old books like Cayley they are referred
to as Black Jays. In the CSIRO "An Index of Australian Bird Names. Div of
Wildlife Technical Paper #20. they quote the following vernacular names for
White-winged Chough. "Apostle Bird, black jay, black magpie, jay, and Mutton
Bird. Nicci Thompson in her "Birds of the Darling Downs" also cites Mutton
Bird as being the local name where she grew up on the southern Darling
Downs. By the way we have stayed in Caravan Parks in Wilmington and Melrose
and have seen Choughs there on a number of occasions.
Cheers John
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On Behalf Of Gary Wright
Sent: Monday, 17 January 2011 4:13 PM
To: birding aus
Subject: white winged chough(blue jays) Wilmington SA
I had great pleasure in seeing these birds on our property this afternoon.
Blue Jays were one of my favourite birds as a child in the mallee in the
Riverland SA. They were a common bird and with their distinctive high
pitched call, they were one of the easy ones for us to track down. In
comparison in years of wandering around the bush back of Monash we only saw
one mallee fowl.
This is the first time I have seen these birds in Wilmington in the 12 years
I have been here. We have seen them 15 kms south of here between here and
Melrose previously and in the Southern Flinders around Laura.
Anyway, it is great to have the blue jay on board!
Gary
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