Well, she was a botanist. At least she did not say it was a ground cover.
Carl
On 10/04/2013, at 11:53, "Jeremy O'Wheel" <> wrote:
> When I was at Cheynes Beach last year I was chatting with a botanist who told
> me that she's seen a Ground Parrot at one of the caravan sites (Ground
> Parrots have been seen around there in the past, but not recently). I rushed
> over and discovered and discovered an Elegant Parrot on the ground.
>
> Jeremy
>
>
> On 10 April 2013 09:54, Carl Clifford <> wrote:
>> I have read several ornithological books lately which use lower case for
>> common names. Not surprising really, as many users of the English language
>> are so challenged by it, they would not know whether to insert, wear, or eat
>> a gerund, let alone when to capitalise a word. My theory is, that it is the
>> publishers trying to save on ink costs. Many a little makes a muckle.
>>
>> Carl Clifford
>>
>> On 10/04/2013, at 8:13, Dave Torr <> wrote:
>>
>> > And still some publications refuse to use capital letters!
>> >
>> > On 9 April 2013 18:09, Philip Veerman <> wrote:
>> >
>> >> May be and we can hope and good not to give up. I don't know either way.
>> >> Of
>> >> course the issue would be, is he seeing Night Parrots or is he seeing
>> >> night
>> >> parrots. As in is it that species or some other species flushed from the
>> >> ground at night that may be a parrot and thus given that name. Presumably
>> >> lots of birds roost on the ground and is he identifying them as separate?
>> >> Surely most birds roosting on the ground would flush in front of a
>> >> nocturnal
>> >> grader. It is worth ascertaining what other birds he sees in that
>> >> situation.
>> >> If he is calling all (or even a large proportion of) birds seen that way
>> >> as
>> >> being Night Parrots, then they probably aren't.
>> >>
>> >> Not that different, I once heard a NP Ranger in a Victorian coastal park
>> >> asked whether there were Ground Parrots around. His answer delivered with
>> >> some amazement at how dumb the question was: yes ground parrots are all
>> >> over
>> >> the place, like these and pointed to Crimson Rosellas feeding on the
>> >> ground
>> >> in the picnic area. Without the capital letters his answer was correct.
>> >>
>> >> Philip
>> >>
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