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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I don't know, like a bit of dark brown mottled fluff that's rolled out from under the bed, and it has two extremely large dark eyes that stare into your soul.
The scientific name doesn't give any of this information at all.
What the duck?
A bloody vampiric goat milking bird.
But the truth is that most of us don't really go anywhere near the Latin names.
We mostly use common names.
Sometimes these are called folk names, and some of them actually have ancient origins.
Stephen Moss.
And in Stephen Moss's book Mrs.
Moreau's Warbler, he goes through a sort of history of bird naming and
Here's the short, short version.
Birds named for a physical feature like their colour, blue, yellow, speckled, spotted, then birds named for a habit like nutcracker or tree creeper or lily trotter.
Where they might live in reeds or swamps, and of course later on, birds are named after people.
Rich people, famous people, and people involved in the science around the bird most often.
We're gonna have to come back to these categories.
With each of these types of birds you get a bit of human history because a hunter being able to identify what's good to eat, I mean that's economic history.
Naming a bird after someone who might give you money?
That's a capitalism of sorts.
A bird that's apparently regal, well that's monarchy, and in the case of Australia.
That's colonialism.
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