I like Djagara as well but it is not a name that has been applied widely to
the species as each language group would have their own name for the
species. In the Sydney area it is "Barri-enna". I think that these
Aboriginal names deserve recognition in their own right but not as a common
name as how do we choose which one?
BTW if anyone knows the Aboriginal name for the Black-necked (Satin) Stork
other than the two discussed above I would appreciate hearing about it. I
have asked some local Bundjalung and Yaegl people but so far no one has
known the local name for the species.
Regards
Greg
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-----Original Message-----
From: Penny Brockman
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2017 3:32 PM
To:
Subject: names
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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