Hello All,
See the messages below. The question raised by Anthony and solved by us has
now been corrected on the company's website (with a new photo of our SF-w).
Two really great information sharings from me on B-A on one day (the other
is finding the Screaming Piha).
Philip Veerman
Kambah ACT 2902
-----Original Message-----From: Philip Veerman
Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013 11:35 PM
To: 'jack marino' Subject: RE: About your "Blue Fairy Wren of
Australia" logo
Dear Ana,
That is very good and quick work. Yes you have the right bird now! Well
done.
Philip
-----Original Message-----From: jack marino
Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013 11:01
PM
To: Subject: RE: About your "Blue Fairy Wren of
Australia" logo
Dear Philip and all the Australian ornithologists,
First of all thanks very much for your email,
I´m very surprised this could cause such a commotion,
I wasn´t at all aware that the photo was faked and because I didn´t know the
real Superb Fairy Wren I couldn´t notice the difference but now I do. Now I
see it was a photoshopped Masked Gnatcatcher. I don´t know why someone would
do that and what for either, makes no sense.
Your precious australian bird is just a quote on my blog, and a future
inspiration for my design patterns, but it´s not my logo.
I just put the right bird on my website, I hope is the good one this time.
And also write "Sydney" the way it is.
If you could tell all the Australian ornithologists sorry for the mistakes,
I´ll be very grateful.
All the best.
Ana.
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> From: > To: >
Subject: About your "Blue Fairy Wren of Australia" logo
> Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:41:59 +1100
>
> Dear Sir,
>
> It has come to notice about your website and your "Blue Fairy Wren of
> Australia" logo. Australian ornithologists have had a discussion about
what
> the bird in your website photo actually is. Most first thinking was that
the
> photo is a fake (and in the end realising it is part faked). So that means
> that many extra people have looked at your website. It is nice that you
> chose such a popular Australian bird for your logo. You even cited the
Birds
> in Backyards project. However the photo used is clearly not any Australian
> bird. Apart from the photo, there is no bird properly called "Blue Fairy
> Wren", although the name is close and the information in your text is
> generally good. Australia has many species of Fairy-wrens. The males of
most
> of which are mostly blue. The most common one known to most people is the
> Superb Fairy-wren (Malurus cyaneus) and that is the one your text refers
to,
> it is often called just "Blue Wren". So to that extent you are close. The
> really interesting thing about these birds is their life style and their
> great sexual activity. However it looks nothing like the bird on your
> website. This is very strange, as the Superb Fairy-wren is such a common
and
> easily findable species and there are no doubt a vast number of photos of
it
> easily available.
>
> I thought it was a photo of the Emperor Fairy-wren (Malurus cyanocephalus)
> from Papua New Guinea. It does look very close to that. At least I gave
the
> benefit of the doubt of having a bird that is closely related and from the
> same genus and region of the world. However there has been a clearly much
> better match found. It has become clear that the bird in the photo is
> actually a South American bird, the Masked Gnatcatcher (Polioptila
> dumicola), with all the greys shifted to blues. That bird is no close
> relation to our Fairy-wrens.
>
> So it is amusing or astonishing to think how this happened and why you
would
> choose what is probably an obscure (certainly to Australian),
geographically
> distant and unrelated species. Someone has pointed out that "It seems
> possible to me that somebody merely jacked up the saturation to make the
> photo prettier, and then it was later misidentified. There are many copies
> of the image on the internet, so I assume the company using the image in
the
> first linking to it was just copying it from somewhere else." I am letting
> you know and maybe you can tell us how this happened and even better put
the
> right bird on your website. I also mention that you spell Sydney wrong.
>
> Philip Veerman
> 24 Castley Circuit
> Kambah ACT 2902
> Australia
>
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