National bird

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Subject:	National bird
From:	Andrew Thelander <>
Date:	Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:18:30 +1000

Hi all

In Sweden, the Swedish Ornithological Society (SOF) is currently organising a 
voluntary vote to determine the national bird of Sweden. This was done once 
before in the early 1960s by a newspaper and the blackbird was elected! This 
shows that the national bird does not have to be an endemic but a species that 
people can relate to in their daily lives.

For Australia, my suggestion for the national bird is the House sparrow. Like 
most of us, its ancestors came from Britain and Europe and adapted to a strange 
new land. Its chirp is familiar to us all. It breeds prolifically just like us 
and eats just about anything it can scrounge from Big Mac crusts to discarded 
diet biscuits. I bet it already has a local dialect now different from those 
back in the Old Dart. And its limited colours would save on printing costs in 
this eco-friendly age.

cheers

Andrew







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