October 25, 2009 – 10:55 am
Armadillos make common roadkill due to their habit of jumping to about fender height when startled – such as by an oncoming car.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Photography, Roadkill, Some places I've been, Uncategorized, Writing and writers
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Tagged African Elephant Shrew, Arabuko Sokoke Forest, Armadillo, Backwoods Bound, Broad-winged Hawks, HawkWatch International, Kenya, Mercy Njeri, Mississippi Kites, River of Raptors, Solitary Hawk, Swainson's Hawks, Turkey Vultures, Veracruz
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October 13, 2009 – 3:27 pm
The first five notes of the Pied Butchebird’s call reminded me very much of “La Cucaracha”…
October 6, 2009 – 10:10 pm
This is a story of the Weebill, the Emu, the Porcupine (Echidna) and some Meat Ants and how the Echidna got it’s spines. The story was told by Arthur Dodd, a Yuwaalaraay speaker from the central north-west of New South wales around Walgett.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Animals, Birds, Birds and people, Some places I've been
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Tagged ABC Radio Morning Show, Alice Brennan, Alice Springs, Bird of the Week, Echidna, Emu, Gamilaraay, Guwaabal, Kamilaroi, Meat Ants, Mindjarru & Bigibila, Pardalotes, Silver-Eyes, small Honeyeaters, Smicrornis brevirostris, Thornbills, Weebills, What Bird am I, Yuwaalaraay
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August 23, 2009 – 6:00 pm
The most substantial single source of Aboriginal bird knowledge in the mainstream ornithological literature was John Gould’s “Handbook to The Birds of Australia”, published in 1865. I’ve not been able to find a replacement candidate as the primary source – and much of the information contained therein was collected by one of Gould’s collectors, John Gilbert, who was taken from us too soon in 1845 while on a cross-country expedition with Ludwig Leichhardt.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Birds, Birds and people, Indigenous land management, Northern development
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Tagged Australian Ornithological Conference 2009, Birds that tell us things, Charles Darwin University, Charles Sturt University, Dhariwaa Elders Group, Dr Dave Watson, Dr Rohan Clarke, John Gilbert, John Gould, Ludwig Leichhardt, Monash University, Myfany Turpin, School for Policy and Social Research
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All about me lay the scattered, shattered remains – here the severed head, there a leg, stripped of flesh, next to the road another head, ten feet away a razor-taloned foot, wing and tail. Whatever had happened here had been brief and incredibly brutal.
The main reason for my travel to Warmun was to get a better look at the work of, and make contact with several of the local artists who paint bird stories grounded in the local landscape and culture.
Roadkill will come in handy when next you run into a Black Kite as it lifts, engorged with rotting flesh and on struggling wings, off a carcass on the roadside – or when you run into a wombat, a snake, a horse…you get the drift.
This series of posters features birds that indicate ecological and social events in four Central Australian Aboriginal languages: Arrernte, Anmatyerr, Alyawarr and Kaytetye.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Animals, Birds, Birds and people, Some places I've been, Yuendumu
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Tagged Aboriginal bird knowledge, Alyawarr and Kaytetye, Anmatyerr, Arrernte, Birds That Tell People Things, Charles Darwin University, Cultural Signs of central Australia, Myfany Turpin, School for Policy and Social Research, University of Queensland
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April 11, 2009 – 11:44 pm
The Turkey Vulture is a common bird in the south of the United States and has a range from southern Canada to the tip of the southern American continent.
New Orleans 4 years ago – there was no water purification equipment on site, no chemical toilets, no antibiotics and no anti-diarrheals stored for a crisis. There were no designated medical staff at work in the evacuation center.
By Bob Gosford
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Also posted in Some places I've been, Uncategorized
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Tagged Bird-man cult, Canis lupus, Cleveland, crypto-species, Dana Lepofsky, Delta State University, Easter Island, eastern Indonesia, El Ritual del Hombre-Pajaro, Felice Wyndham, Flores, Greg Forth, Hurricane Katrina, Idaho, International Society of Ethnobiology, Jami Wright, Louisiana National Guard, Mark Bonta, New Orleans, Nez Perce, Rapa Nui, Sara Tiffany, Society of Ethnobiology, Superdome, Wolf
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