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who calls Grallina cyanoleuca what...

To: Merrilyn Serong <>
Subject: who calls Grallina cyanoleuca what...
From: Andrew Bell <>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 10:03:12 +0930
I grew up in gippsland and still prefer mudlark- magpie lark is my least favouite of the three common names
Cheers
Andrew

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On 24/05/2011, at 9:51 AM, Merrilyn Serong <> wrote:

Hi Cas,
I prefer Mudlark (grew up in Melbourne and still live here), but use Magpie-lark (for 'correctness').
Cheers,
Merrilyn

On 23/05/2011 8:55 PM, Cas Liber wrote:
Someone asked me about the term "mudlark" today for Grallina cyanoleuca - and I confessed I wasn't sure how common it actually was, apart from reading that it was more a Victorian and/or WA term. I recall the books having "Peewit" or "Magpie-lark" as the first or second names. I generally called
it a "Peewee" as a child, and my mum still does, though sometimes use
"Magpie-lark". I have never heard anyone call it a "Peewit" but I don't mix
too much with birdwatchers in real life.

The wonders of email and discussion groups like this one is we can do an instant census (has it ever been done on this species I wonder) as to what everyone calls it by default, and where in Australia they are. I am in Sydney. So what does everyone else call it (and if you answer can you also say what part of Australia you're in? Doesn't have to be suburb, maybe city and "North, South East or West" is fine. I'll tally up the responses at the
end.
Cheers
Cas

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