I like Djagara - presumably promounced Dja-ga-ra with a nice pitch on
the Dja. Suits the bird.
On 23/01/17 5:26 PM, michael hunter wrote:
> Once again a few academics, mostly not Australian, if not Un-Australian,
> are foisting otherworldly names onto us Aussie birders.
>
> Common names , NOT ENGLISH names, for Australian birds are names commonly
> used by about 99% of Australian birdwatchers for our birds. It is appalling
> that colourless English names like Black-necked Stork have been inflicted on
> us by a few pseudo-academics who are presumably incapable of memorising
> Scientific names. Jabiru may be the common name of a South American Stork,
> but changing the official “common” name for any birdwatcher witless enough to
> confuse the two in the field was an amazing arrogance. One justification was
> that people reading birdguides will be confused in not justified.
>
> These people are meddling with our Australian common names, which are ,
> or were, spontaneous non-scientific vernacular.
> Among many examples, “Jabiru” and “Torres Straits Pigeon” had romantic
> (in the broad sense folks) connotations lost in the bland generics we are
> told to use instead. As a youth my first sighting of the legendary Jabiru was
> very exciting, and stimulated a life-long interest in Birding. Seeing a
> Black-necked Stork would not have.
>
> “Willy Fantail” They must be joking.
>
> Resist.
>
> Michael
>
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