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National Bird

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Subject: National Bird
From: "Philip Veerman" <>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 14:19:54 +1100
This is really off topic....... What about all the hawks, swans and eagles
supporters? (I'm in the former group.) We're not all
Collingwood..........Then there is the Geelong cats....... Nominations
anyone? Then there is the women's netball teams.........

Hey Carl, we can stop nagging Canberra. People from outside Canberra should
realise that almost all of the federal politicians are from and (allegedly)
representing electorates far away from Canberra and are inflicted on
us.......... Canberra has probably the lowest representation of politicians
in the federal parliament of the whole country. As for the Galah, I (and
Chinese wife) reckon the main double note call of the Galah sounds a lot
like the Chinese word for 'thank you". 

Philip

-----Original Message-----From: Birding-Aus
 On Behalf Of David Taylor
Sent: Saturday, 21 March 2015 12:23 PM
To:  Subject: [Birding-Aus] Fwd: National Bird

Given its almost Australia wide distribution, urban and rural presence and
striking plumage that would work well on crests etc  I'd nominate the
Australian Magpie as my pick as our National bird 

Cheers

David  Taylor 

> Nope we do not have an National bird or animal. Considering what has 
> been coming out of Canberra over the last few years, perhaps our 
> National Bird should be the Spangled Drongo.
> 
> Carl Clifford
> 
> 
>>> On 20 Mar 2015, at 7:10 pm, Martin Butterfield 
>>> <>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I had assumed it was the Emu as it features on our Coat of Arms.
>> However I can't find anything authoritative which confirms this or 
>> offers an alternative.
>> 
>> Surely we have one?  If not, I cry 'Shime, shime " and ask what can 
>> be
>> done and by whom to get one.  (For various reasons, if starting from 
>> scratch, my pick would be Galah.)
>> 
>> 
>> Martin Butterfield
>> http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/


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