Names of things like animals are a huge slowly moving feast of entrenched
errors and wrong connections. In the end they mean what we choose. Ground
Butcherbird probably makes sense by virtue of real affinities but how many
Australian people, let alone Collingwood football fans are going to make the
change from Magpie? The name of penguin is based on the Great Auk........
wombats are often called badgers, koalas are called bears, lyrebirds are
called pheasants, our magpies are given the same magpie name as the very
different magpie of Eurasia, etc. Although I don't see what is wrong with
the name it commemorates the black & white scheme..............
-----Original Message-----
From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
Greg and Val Clancy
Sent: Friday, 14 August 2015 1:10 PM
To: Denise Goodfellow
Cc: birding-aus
Subject: Piping Shrike is South Aus emblemic bird
Hi Denise,
What do you suggest as the new name for the bandicoots?
Greg
From: Denise Goodfellow
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 12:51 PM
To: Greg
Cc: Doug Holly ; birding-aus
Subject: Piping Shrike is South Aus emblemic bird
I’m waiting for ‘bandicoot’ (originally the name of an Indian rodent) to
change!
Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
PO Box 71
Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841
043 8650 835
PhD candidate, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW.
Founding Member: Ecotourism Australia
Nominated by Earthfoot for Condé Nast’s International Ecotourism Award,
2004.
With every introduction of a plant or animal that goes feral this continent
becomes a little less unique, a little less Australian.
On 14 Aug 2015, at 11:37 am, Greg and Val Clancy <> wrote:
When I correct a birding friend of mine who is hell bent on referring to
our Black-necked (Satin) Stork as a Jabiru (a South American stork) he
responds by saying well the Australian Magpie is not a real magpie, and I
agree with him. We changed 'warbler' to 'Gerygone' and there have been
other changes so I propose that, since the Australian Magpie is now in the
genus Cracticus with the butcherbirds, that we change its name to 'Ground
Butcherbird'. I am now entering my air raid bunker and securely locking
the hatch!!!!
Greg
Dr Greg. P. Clancy
Ecologist and Birding-wildlife Guide
| PO Box 63 Coutts Crossing NSW 2460
| 02 6649 3153 | 0429 601 960
http://www.gregclancyecologistguide.com
http://gregswildliferamblings.blogspot.com.au/
-----Original Message----- From: Doug Holly
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2015 8:56 AM
To: Birding Aus
Subject: [Birding-Aus] Piping Shrike is South Aus emblemic bird
There has always been confusion over this name because Piping Shrike was
used as the name of the White-backed Magpie when the South Aust
constitution
was written.
Identification of the birdEdit
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piping_shrike#/editor/2>
Because the name piping shrike is not used to identify any bird, there has
been some confusion over what bird it represents. While some think it
resembles the Murray magpie <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magpie-lark>
(Grallina cyanoleuca), the original reports specify that it is based on
the
Australian magpie <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_magpie> ,
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piping_shrike#cite_note-SMHGovernor-1>
[1]
and government sources specify the subspecies as the white-backed magpie
(Cracticus tibicen telonocua formerly Gymnorhina tibicen leuconota).
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piping_shrike#cite_note-4> [4] The
connection of this bird to the name piping shrike can be seen in this
early
observation by explorer Charles Sturt
<https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Sturt> in the 1840s:
"GYMNORHINA LEUCONOTA GOULD., The White-backed Crow Shrike. This bird is
somewhat larger than, and very much resembles a magpie, but the proportion
of white is greater, and there is no metallic or varied tint on the black
feathers as on the European bird. In South Australia it is a winter bird,
and his clear fine note was always the most heard on the coldest morning,
as
if that temperature best suited him. All the species of this genus are
easily domesticated, and learn to pipe tunes. They are mischievous birds
about a house, but are useful in a garden. I had one that ranged the
fields
to a great distance round the house, but always returned to sleep in it."
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