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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That by taking away the name of a bird that is interwoven with your family and your life, so that when you think of Uriban and then hear it called the welcome swallow, it's like repeating the dispossession over and over again.
Now.
One more example of why bird names are history hand grenades that explode their context all over the unsuspecting.
There is one bird name on the beaks of bird watchers right now.
Yeah, it sounds like a pterodactyl, but it's actually the pink cockatoo.
And you might know it as the Major Mitchell's cockatoo.
Nola Turner.
Stephen Downes is that man behind the parrot of the day social media accounts.
His actual profession is in branding and marketing.
So that sort of puts him in a unique position to comment on bird brands.
I mean bird names.
wasn't it.
And Mitchell wrote about it and painted it, and apparently he fell in love with it.
But for decades the most common name was Pink Cockatoo.
Major Mitchell Cocky weirdly caught on much more recently, and as with many common names, it can be a bit hard to pinpoint exactly why or when.
Anyway, who was this bloke?
Although it can be slightly bureaucratic, names can be changed.
Remember how there was that report back in the 1920s from the then Ornithologist Union?
Well that organisation is now BirdLife Australia.
And you guessed it, they've got a naming committee.
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