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who calls Grallina cyanoleuca what...

To: "Cas Liber" <>, "'birding-aus'" <>
Subject: who calls Grallina cyanoleuca what...
From: "Roger Giller" <>
Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 16:25:26 +1000
In my younger, pre-birding, days in Sydney I knew them as Peewee ,but it was always spelt Peewit . No idea why. When I moved to Melbourne for a few years and got interested in birding I was surprised to find they were commonly known as Mudlarks.

I prefer the onomatopoeic "Peewee"

Cheers
Roger




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