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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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 5 in all, peaking in May 2026 with 2.
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And even in bird names.
Stephen Downs is the bloke behind the parrot of the day social media accounts.
If you're on Twitter and into birds, you would have seen him around.
You mean how did we get invited to this house party only populated by birds that are named after male bird characteristics?
Oh look, there's the red-backed fairy wren.
G'day!
Tails looking cop tonight, mate.
Ha!
See what I did there?
Oh, the red tail black cocky, take it easy on the nuts, mate!
The red-cheeked parrot scientific name like a soccer chant, Jeff Royus, Jeff Royi, Jeff Royi.
Easy on the drinks, Jeff.
Oh yep, and then out the back at the barbecue, here are all the birds that are named after males.
Male humans I'm talking about.
Hall's Babler, Galays, Saunders Turn, Burke's Parrot, Wilson's Storm Petrel, Swinhose, and Nordman's, McClay's, McGilliverrays, Gilberts, Cooks, Carnabies, Bordens, Alberts, Abbots.
Ah, what have you like directly come from the Australia Club or something?
And of course, it's not just women that have been largely left out.
The birds of what we now call Australia had names for thousands of years before any white person turned up on a boat.
What is it like when you hear European language names used for birds?
So if I'm understanding what Nola told me correctly, it isn't just the initial colonisation and violence that scars.
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