Ann Jones
speaker
552 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Ann Jones’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
Alright, my favourite book, The Bird Guide.
Listen to these absurdly named creatures.
Frigate birds.
Noddies.
The Imperial Shag.
I mean, what?
Darth Vader on Tinder?
It does lead me to ask some questions sometimes when I flip through the Bird Guide.
Like, what is with all the tits and boobies?
And like Hooters.
I'm Ann Jones and this is What the Duck, the weekly programme for ABC Science, where we're going to try to get to the bottom of the weirdest mysteries of the natural world and sometimes the ones that have been staring me in the face for years.
Like, why do birds have such silly names?
Stephen Moss has written a bazillion books on natural history, including one that investigates the origins of bird names.
It's called Mrs.
Moreau's Warbler.
These dazzling and sometimes hyperbolic names bring one man to mind.
Andrew has spent several decades now chasing down every superlative word in a bird name by seeing the bird.
So he's bird watching, but he's also word batching.
Wait, so is this just in Australia or around the world?
Oh my god.
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