National bird

[Dominic Funnell <>]

Hi
A purely spurious / tongue firmly in cheek couple of suggestions. Not sure
if they would be eligible as may not be a self sustaining population but
what about the Ostrich...apt for the current Govt who consistently bury
their heads in the sand on environmental and other issues..
Or possibly the Brush Turkey...
Dom
On 23 Mar 2015 2:18 pm, "Andrew Thelander" <> wrote:

> Hi all
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> cheers
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