The Crested Bellbird has a very distinctive call, from which its Warlpiri name of Kanpanparlala is an onomatopoeic derivation.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Animals, Birds, Birds and people, Indigenous land management
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Also tagged Anangu Tours, Bird Observers Club of Australia, Crested Bellbird, CSIRO, Herbert Basedow, Kanpanparlala, Kurdaitcha men, Lasseter, Lasseteria, Mark Kuliitya, Megan Hatton, National Museum of Australia, Oreoica gutturalis, Paku Paku, Panpanpalala, Rachael Kohn, South Australian Government North-west Prospecting Expedition, The Spirit of Things, Uluru
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In Australia we have 14 families and over 2,800 species of crickets and grasshoppers – here are some pictures and stories of grasshoppers found in central Australia.
By Bob Gosford
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Posted in Aboriginal & Islander Art, Birds, Yuendumu
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Also tagged Crickets, Field Guide to the Insects of Australia, grasshoppers, instar nymph, Jintilyka, Jukurrpa, Kirr-kirr, Ngalia Warlpiri, Ngapatjimbi, Nymphs, Old and New Australian Aboriginal Art, Orthoptera, Paul Zborowski, Roman Black, Ross Storey, sand grasshopper, Urnisiella, Wantangara
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November 12, 2008 – 9:14 pm
This is a story about the ordinary and how easily we can slip from appreciating the beauty in those things we see every day or that we are told are pests and how we elevate our regard for the rare over the commonplace.
The Magpie Lark Grallina cyanoleuca is one of our most common birds, found [...]
