Jonah Lafferty

I'm up a little bit further north than you guys on Gimoy Wallaburra Yadindji country up in far north Queensland.

Hi, Kirsty.

Oh, it's lovely to be here.

I've had the weekend birder theme song stuck in my head all day in anticipation of this.

I love that question from Dani because I think something that it really gets at is that as kids, like all kids love dinosaurs.

Obviously, some that carries through to adulthood for a lot of people as well.

But particularly, you know, like when I was a kid, I used to love those dinosaurs.

those little archeology blocks.

Like you get those like blocks that you got to dig out a little dinosaur in.

That was one of my absolute favorite things as a kid.

And I think that as an adult, so many adults, and especially my, you know, love for birds is so I kind of akin to that childhood love that we all have for dinosaurs.

And I think that like, it translates so well as an adult into birdwatching that kind of childhood, um,

love of something that's potentially a little bit um you know something that you don't understand too well it's so different there's so many different species uh there's so many parallels to loving birds um into adulthood and it is remarkable um just how dinosaur like some of our birds are like danny said in that question obviously emus um the other day i had the uh

the luck of seeing a cassowary up here in far north Queensland.

It is genuinely feels like you are seeing a dinosaur.

It's the closest thing in Australia I think you can get to that feeling of what it would be like to be in Jurassic Park.

You want to get birdwatchers excited, just say Rupert Brown, Amy Wren, Opalton Grassman and Grey Falcon in the same sentence.

Well, Sean's as advanced as they come.

I mean, he could, he must have hit his intermediate phase much further long ago than myself.

And for me, it was, I think one thing that I found interesting that I didn't realize I was doing until maybe someone else pointed it out was