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Waap'n deh MG? It look like a gaaling to me. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] -
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excellent bandi! eff you wain come tell me seh a egret, me'da seh you a no real Jamaican.
Had some stoosh kingstonian friends one time weh insisted on correcting me every time me call de bird "gaalin."Comment
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'course, we all know dis one, right? when me was pickney dem ketch one a dem one time and den dem kill it.
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patoo
dem did eat it? 'caz mi memba dem use to roas wile bird when mi a pickni.
can yu poas a pictra of "ol man bird" - heard it - never seen it.Comment
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Eeeeeuuuuuuwwww!!!!
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no dem neva eat it. we did kinna fraid a patoo.
me a try find ole man bird...will let you know when me fine it...Comment
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here's dis ole compadre, weh im name again? [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [img]/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
This bird is known in America as the turkey vulture. It is ungainly on the ground but very beautiful in flight.Comment
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Bandi, there was an old mento song about that bird, a long time ago. Anyone remember it?Originally posted by bandido1:
[qb]Waap'n deh MG? It look like a gaaling to me. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] [/qb]
'Corpral tell me why you no eat white gaaling stew.
Corpral tell me why you no eat white gaaling stew.
Corpral tell me why you no eat white gaaling stew.
Cut the gaaling in two,
and tek de liver mek stew,
Corpral tell me why you no eat white gaaling stew.....Comment
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Definitely johncrow MG.Comment
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yes, the one and only, CG!
the last of the easy ones here:
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thought i'd post this picture of a patoo found only in Jamaica (endemic). It seems really tiny to me, i'd love to see one in real life. it's called the Jamaican owl, Pseudoscops grammicus.
There is a bigger long-tailed Jamaican owl, actually known in the scientific community as the Jamaican Potoo or Northern Potoo
(to distinguish it from the smaller one). The word "patu" comes from the African language, Twi, and means "owl."
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another endemic bird, the Jamaican tody:
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did you know, that Jamaica has more than 265 species of birds, with more than 30 of them endemic (found only in Jamaica)?
Jamaica has more of a varied bird life than animal life because of the way the island was created - it was pushed up out of the sea by volcanic activity. (I saw stuff growing up in the blue mountains that were identfied as a form of seaweed!! ) Birds drifted over to Jamaica on the winds. (The few animals that made it to the island came there by sea - either on a drift or imported.) Over time, birds in Jamaica developed unique characteristics found in none of their cousins from neighbouring lands.
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found this very interesting letter from a Jamaican naturalist group.
BLACK BIRDS ENDANGERED?
The Editor, Sir/Madam:
BirdLife Jamaica received a number of correspondences from concerned Jamaicans following the well-written Sunday Observer story on the plight of Jamaica’s endangered bird species. The overwhelming response was one of deep concern for the pending loss of some of our islands most beautiful and unique natural wild treasures. Among these responses was expressed a surprise at the fact that the Jamaican Blackbird was listed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as globally endangered. After all, aren’t black birds common? Indeed, are they not found a dime a dozen all over Kingston and every evening on the electric wires at the Hope Road power station near Hope Gardens?
What these individuals did not know is that Jamaica has eight (8) different species of birds that are black in "colour", most of which are commonly called black birds by the layperson. These are the Greater Antillean Grackle (or Kling-Kling), Smooth-billed Ani (or Savanna Blackbird or Ani), Jamaican Crow (or Jamicrow), Greater Antillean Bullfinch (or Black Sparrow), the Jamaican Becard (or Judy or Rickatee), the Turkey Vulture (or John Crow), the Shiny Cowbird and finally the Jamaican Blackbird (or Wildpine Sargeant). Only the latter of is endangered and is restricted to increasingly disappearing mature rain forest of Jamaica’s interior mountains which now covers less than 6% of the island. The Jamaican Blackbird is the only species in a Jamaican endemic genus of bird species, with the result that it is not closely related to any other Jamaican bird or indeed to any other species of bird world-wide. How it got here and where its closes relatives are to be found are totally unknown to science. It is possibly our islands most endangered bird species and is in urgent need of scientific study.
For those who know this the "true Jamaica Blackbird", it is frequently called the Wildpine Sargeant because it feeds in wildpines (more correctly known as bromeliads) from which it extracts a diet of grubs. Because of its reliance on bromeliads and other such canopy growing plants, this species will not be found in or near cities or other similarly developed areas where its feeding places are hard to find.
As a point of interest for the readership, it should be noted that while black birds are generally thought of as less attractive, it has been proven that may species of birds are whole or partially black for very good reasons. The primary reason appears to be the fact that the dark pigment increases the durability of feathers. Additionally over long distances, black becomes more conspicuous than other colors and therefore is important as a long distance signal particularly in flocking species. Also for whatever reason black birds are also the smartest birds around the world as has been shown by experiment with ravens and crows which are all essentially black.
I am etc.,
Leo Douglas
Media Relations Officer
BirdLife Jamaica
2 Starlight Avenue
Kingston 6
Tel: (876) 927-8444
e-mail: [email protected]Comment
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