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Guardian Australian bird of the year 2017

To: Peter Madvig <>
Subject: Guardian Australian bird of the year 2017
From: Laurie Knight <>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 08:14:46 +0000
Fascinating - its Dump Chook 1, daylight second at this point in time.  I 
suspect suspicious voting activity there …

I notice that Night Parrots didn’t make it onto the list - perhaps because that 
would split the conservation vote …

On 20 Nov 2017, at 9:16 pm, Peter Madvig <> wrote:

> The voting resembles a bit the results of birds in back yards...not the 
> surveys but "peoples' choice". I think if it was only voted on by the so 
> called 'birding community', the end tally would be a bit different - does 
> that make sense?
> Cheers,
> Peter Madvig
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Birding-Aus  On Behalf Of 
> Tom Wilson
> Sent: Monday, 20 November 2017 8:04 PM
> To: Carl Clifford; Bill Stent
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> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Guardian Australian bird of the year 2017
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> Better than Channel-billed Cuckoo though.  If you haven’t voted and don’t 
> know what to vote for, how about giving the OBP a boost?
>
>
> From: Carl Clifford
> Sent: Monday, November 20, 2017 6:10 PM
> To: Bill Stent
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Guardian Australian bird of the year 2017
>
> Poor old OBP hasn’t scored well.
>
> On Monday, November 20, 2017, Bill Stent <> wrote:
>
>> https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/
>> 2017/nov/20/australian-bird-of-the-year-2017-vote-for-your-favourite
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