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Skriven 2008-07-28 13:23:06 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av Glen Jamieson
Ärende: RE: MAGPIES & CROWS 80726
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Gidday Glen!
-> 
-> Now back in Adelaide, suffering the cold, wet weather, after a couple
-> of weeks spent in the Northern Territory, watching the morning flights
-> of the magpie geese and the kites soaring on afternoon thermals, while
-> relaxing in the tropical warmth.
-> 
Most Ozzies that I talk to are happy with the rainy season, 
seems like most of the dams are now at about 40% or more now
and they are very happy with that!
 How's your river doing?

->  ->  HN> I wonder if your "crows" are the same as our crows? Do
->  ->  HN> you have a scientific name for them?
->  -> 
->  -> I think that our "crows" are probably actually ravens.  They have a
->  -> somewhat deeper "CAAARRRK" than yours.  They are found all over
->  -> Australia, even in the arid desert regions.
->  ->  
->  HN> See if you can find a scientific name for them.
-> 
-> I checked this on the I'net (australian crows), and found that here
-> there are 3 native ravens and 3 crows, although they are almost
-> indistinguishable from each other.   The ones I usually see/hear are
-> the Australian Ravens (Corvus Coronoides) with a length of 52 cm.  They
-> have a particularly doleful cry, which you could hear if you log on to
-> www.anbg.gov.au/sounds/raven/au.  If you are almost dying of thirst in
-> the desert and hear that cry from a waiting raven, it is enough to
-> persuade you to give up!   Although they are supposed to be shy of
-> humans, the ones I saw in WA must have known they were in a designated
-> national park, as they just looked at me and carried on eating.
->  
I looked em up, pretty much similar to ours.

->  ->  HN> Australia has TONS of neat birds! From budgies to Cocatoo's, 
->  ->  HN> parrots, treecreepers, Lyerbirds, bowerbirds, eclectus's, 
->  ->  HN> Kookaburra's, and of course the Cassoawary! I'd love to spend
->  ->  HN> about 6 months...(well a year probably still would not be enough)
->  ->  HN> just getting bird shots! And Emu's, I almost forgot EMU's!!
->  -> 
->  -> There are more members of the parrot family here than in all the rest
->  -> of the world.  As Australia is at one end of the bird migration paths,
->  -> we get many small birds which fly down each year from as far away as
->  -> Siberia.   Many people come here to study and photograph the 
penguins.
->  ->  
->  HN> Yeh, I'd love to spend time in Oz shooting birdies!
-> 
-> Don't forget the penguins, which are real fun!  And we have the largest
-> pelicans in the world.
->
Penquins are birds...I didn't forget them! (grin)
  
->  -> Nights in the bush can be quite exciting, miles from any other humans,
->  -> and just the sounds of small animals and insects, with thumps of
->  -> passing kangaroos, and perhaps the howl of a distant dingo.
->  -> 
->  HN> There are lots of places like that in the world, and even here in 
->  HN> the USA we still have quite  a few good spots...for now!
-> 
-> It does the soul good to spend time in such places, to realize the
-> insignificance of the brief appearance of mankind in eternity.
-> 
As long as you don't get bitten by any of the large number
of very poisonous critters that seem to live in OZ!
Just watched a segment on snakes in Oz...who boy you
gots some doozies there! brown snake, and the inland
taipan are particularly nasty!
chat with you soon!
hap 
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