I guess the reaction would be similar if I told my Indian friends that I saw a
bandicoot in Australia.
Denise Lawungkurr Goodfellow
PO Box 71
Darwin River, NT, Australia 0841
043 8650 835
On 24 Jan 2017, at 8:12 pm, Tone <> wrote:
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>> From: Tone <>
>> Date: 24 January 2017 at 20:15:29 AEDT
>> To: Tony Russell <>
>> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] names
>>
>> Hi Tony
>> I am neither an academic nor a re-namer, I don't have a trumpet to blow, and
>> I certainly don't need to be noticed. I just like to be understood when I
>> communicate. If I told my Brazilian friends that I saw a Jabiru in Australia
>> they would have a giggle because Jabiru mycteria, the only species in the
>> genus Jabiru, is endemic to South and Central America. Also, Black-necked
>> Stork is not a new name, having been the official name for our bird for over
>> a century.
>>
>> If you want to call a table a chair because that's what you learned when you
>> were a kiddie, then so be it, but you will only be understood by your those
>> who know you.
>>
>> Just sayin'
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> Tony Gibson
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On 23 Jan 2017, at 18:10, Tony Russell <> wrote:
>>>
>>> I think these would be "re-namers" are just blowing their own trumpets to
>>> gain a little notice. Forget it folks, keep using the names we all grew up
>>> with, we don't NEED any new names thank you academia.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Birding-Aus On Behalf Of
>>> michael hunter
>>> Sent: 23 January 2017 16:57
>>> To:
>>> Subject: [Birding-Aus] names
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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