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classic classic Gill can everybody hear

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me now please give me a thumbs up if you

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can hear me

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yeah lovely thank you welcome to welcome

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to another program

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at the national portrait gallery i'm so

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sorry for my muting issues i wish my i

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think my family wishes they could mute

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me more often um my friend here and i

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are here to welcome you to

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another thursday

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lunch we experiment a little bit and we

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uh have a look at portraiture from a

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slightly different lens shall we say and

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we're introducing you to some of the

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staff behind the scenes here at the

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national portrait gallery as well

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now when we first thought about

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celebrating national bird week and

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having a little bit of a mash-up of

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portraits plus birds

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i

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was trying to think of a word that

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described

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very enthusiastic

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but hopeless and that for me in a

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nutshell is exactly my relationships

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with birds i love birds i think they're

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fantastic

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um i don't really know very much about

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them at all so i'm hoping that there are

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some people out there today in zoom land

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and on facebook who are a little bit

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more knowledgeable about birds than i am

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i remember a story that my my son very

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enthusiastically constructed a bird

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feeder in our backyard which has

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attracted absolutely zero birds and has

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been built in completely the wrong way

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and obviously they feel terrified to

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even go in there so we have an

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unoccupied bird feeder hanging off our

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back fence which is a little bit like a

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piece of modern art isn't it

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so

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to counteract my enthusiasm plus

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hopelessness i have i'm very very lucky

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to work with a colleague here at the

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national portrait gallery our web

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developer and our programmer patrick who

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i honestly believe has taken some of the

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most stunning bird portraits i have ever

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seen in my life

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and so patrick we're very lucky we

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couldn't drag him out in front of the

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camera today unfortunately but patrick

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is in our chat and he is very happy to

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help answer any of the bird questions or

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queries that you might have um so

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speaking of chat please do pop any

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comments questions observations birdie

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observations into the chat on zune or

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into the comments on facebook and i'll

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try and feed through some of those

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questions and comments to the panel of

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our friends mpg friends today

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um we were talking yesterday about this

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sort of national resurgence in bird

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watching there seems to be a

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another

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enthusiasm for actually taking time out

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and observing nature

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at the moment that seems to have been

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growing over the last few years

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and

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national bird week this week of course

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and the national bird count which penny

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one of our panelists will fill you in on

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a little bit later in the program is

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happening and i could think of nothing

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nicer than actually going out on a

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beautiful spring day like it is here in

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canberra a little bit overcast but the

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sun is starting to break through

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and and just sit

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on the lands of the nambrian and all

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peoples that we're so lucky to be

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connected with here in canberra and just

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observe birds passing by i think i could

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think of nothing nicer to do at the

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moment

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um so as i mentioned yes canberra is on

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the lands of the nambrian animal peoples

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i'd like to extend my respect to their

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traditional custodians and their

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traditional owners past present and

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emerging

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and i'd also like to extend a warm

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welcome to any first nations people who

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are joining us from around australia

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today

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so i've also been informed um over the

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past week that we do not use the term

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twitches as much anymore i had been

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enthusiastically saying our twitter

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program but apparently birders is the

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preferred term so our resident birders

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penny annette and marina

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are here today to take you on a little

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uh flight should we say a flight through

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portraits in our collection that contain

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birds

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welcome so much jill hello everyone so

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i'm um we've we've arranged natural

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environments for ourselves today marina

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and so you can see behind us i'm

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actually sitting on the floor of my

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study so if i shift my position a bit

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that's because my foot's gone to sleep

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but you can see one of my bird baths

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homemade in the background there so

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maybe we'll have a visitor during the

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program and everyone can get really

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excited

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um put in the chat if you see a carawang

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land behind me

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so i'm very happy to be celebrating

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national bird week i always find it very

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enjoyable when my hobbies meet my

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professional life

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and

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i sort of came to birding a few years

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ago um and

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i i've

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i've started i hector if we got that

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first slide up there of the blackfaced

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cuckoo shrike now i thought i'd

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introduce the idea

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of the portrait gallery's connection to

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birds because

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before the last lockdown we started just

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beside my desk a little bird of the day

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kind of like in a book and we put up the

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book to sort of have a sort of the

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spirit bird of the day like if it was

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energetic and enthusiastic and foraging

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that was going to be the spirit of the

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day then when we all went into lockdown

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in 2020 that went online to the platform

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we all collaborate on and that is when

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we found out that patrick cox our

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programmer is an amazing bird

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photographer and this is one of his so

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the bird photos you'll see in this

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program are all courtesy of patrick cox

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now i put up the blackface purchase

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right specifically because

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i think a lot of people do feel like

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they're

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you know they notice all the sounds of

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birds but you know there's a level of

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mystification there as to what they all

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are or they see them flip past and

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couldn't identify them

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so when i joined the canberra

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ornithologist group as a total beginner

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a few years ago

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it's actually amazing

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how many birds you notice that are there

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all the time that you never would have

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been aware of and this is the classic

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one for me the blackface cookery strike

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is around us all the time it has when it

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lands it has this distinctive little

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shuffle it does

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and it has this amazing trilling sound

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so go online if you've never noticed

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this bird around camera go online listen

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to the call and you will find

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like learning a word for the first time

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and then finding it everywhere you will

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find this bird absolutely everywhere

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and i also reflecting on birding

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particularly in these times of

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of strain around the world i i've

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been thinking about the parallel between

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bird watching

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and looking at art

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because it is a wonderful immersive

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incredibly absorbing absorbing process

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of slow looking

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you can stand looking at a tiny brown

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bird in a bush for half an hour and the

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time just goes like that and you might

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not identify it

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because

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for an for a beginner bird watcher like

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me

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sometimes that's definitely on the cards

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so these are my binoculars just to prove

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all of this that i'm saying

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and one of my great joys in lockdown

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this time has been walking down the

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horse paddocks near where i live

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and pop up the others the next slide

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hector

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this is one of the one of the birds that

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we see down put in the chat if you know

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what this one is

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it's another classic that you hear often

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more than you see incredibly strange

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looking animal but just the huge

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diversity of birds in these countries is

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like pure joy in itself

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so

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this is the noisy friar bird if any of you

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got that one

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and there's one i've been really

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enjoying hearing this one down the

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paddock and beautiful photo patrick

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um it's been absolutely lovely sharing

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the love of birds with my colleagues

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across the portrait gallery because we

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um

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none of us would have ever known about

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this interest before we sort of started

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having these conversations and admiring

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uh patrick's patrick's work

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so

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pop up the next one

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hector

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ah i reckon this is my favorite of

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patrick's beautiful photos so these are

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double barred finches and i only saw

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them very recently because without

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binoculars you would not know they are

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there uh

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yes so i've seen these down the horse

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paddocks feeding on some of the the

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horse feed um foraging on the ground and

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these beautiful flocks they're truly

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remarkable birds with their like this

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sort of vivid blue beak

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uh and these lovely bard markings

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and this is the last bird i'll share

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with you before i bring annette and

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marina into the conversation to talk

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about their bird connections

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so this of course is the gang gang now

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the gang gang

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if everyone everyone in the all those

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let's see how many birders we have in

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the audience there and put in the chat

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what is the distinctive call of the gang

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gang how do you know a gang gang is

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around your house what do you listen out

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for

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and so this is the emblem third emblem

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of the act and this is a very important

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bird to recognize at the moment in

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canberra in national bird week because

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it is

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it's a threatened species and it's being

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listed it's endangered because of the

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huge impact of the bushfires

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on its habitat so it's a really

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important reminder this gorgeous

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gorgeous bird that birds that you and i

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might see around our house and that seem

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quite

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quite common uh can actually be under

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huge strain because of habitat loss in

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their in their environments

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so yeah i'm just gonna i mean honestly i

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could feel this full 45 minutes myself

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by just ruminating on birds but

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so you don't all have to put up with

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that let's bring marina and annette into

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the conversation so marina

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let's hear about your connection to

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birds

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so i am not a birder

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um or a twitcher uh i am uh

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but i so but i come here as a novice

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so

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and my connection with birds my personal

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connection with birds is chickens

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uh so i think uh we might bring up the

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portrait of lucy cullerton by greg waite

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thanks hector

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so this

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celebrates the chicken so for me uh

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chickens began with two pecans two pecan

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bantams there was beaks and lc

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uh but here and that was years ago and

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then it was followed with light sussexes

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rhode island reds

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langshams

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lace wine dots and all sorts of

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chickens

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but let's have a closer look at lucy

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carlaton with her chicken

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and for those of you who don't know lucy

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cullerton is a painter she's a painter's

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painter she

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celebrates paint she paints lights

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she's

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expressionist with her painting she goes

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in

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fast and if it works it works if it

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doesn't it doesn't

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um but here she is with

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in her studio so this is by greg weight

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who did a fantastic series of portraits

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of artists in their spaces

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and here's lucy in a studio with two of

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her artworks from a series this is from

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2003 called cocks

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and she is holding april the rooster so

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this is called lucy carlton with april

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the rooster and i like that because when

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you do name a chicken you don't know

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what it's going to be

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um and from from the get-go but these

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paint this if we have a bigger if we pan

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back out and see lucy next to these

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artworks that she she did so these are

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massive and they are i think a

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combination of of funny a little bit

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humorous and terrifying

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and lucy has she lives with a menagerie

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of animals birds but she's got sheep and

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cattle and donkeys and horses and dogs

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and cats

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and all of her animals are friends so

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whenever she paints an animal she's

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painting a portrait it's not describing

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what they look like

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it's capturing their character their

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individuality and their personality and

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here you've got some pretty

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um

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showing off

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rooster cocks uh uh but yep she's got emus

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and geese and ducks and guinea fowl

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chickens she's got pigeons she's got all

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sorts of things so

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penny

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my connection to the

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to the bird is the chicken it's through

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the chicken

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it's so i always remember i'll never

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forget growing up when we were feeding

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the chickens and we had a one-legged

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chicken that had stopped laying years

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before for many years

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and whenever we chucked out tofu in the

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scraps all of the birds were like

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kookaburras butcher birds magpies

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everyone would fight the chickens for

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the tofu

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there you go

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i found my chickens really like grapes

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oh nice that's very healthy

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i love these poor i love lucy's

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portraits of animals because they have

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they really show that individual

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character that each

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each bird has and if you do spend time

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around any bird

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and will get to magpies later you do

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start to realize their individual

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personalities

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now annette tell us about your bird

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connection

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so

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my first bird connections were um in in

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england on farmland which was skylarks

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and

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thrushes and blackbirds all of that song

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and yet in my home

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um my home was completely decorated with

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paintings and prints of australian bird

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life which was a bit of a paradox

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because i had these images but outside i

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had very different sounds and that was

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because i my family inherited

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um

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these paintings and portraits from um

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forebear john and elizabeth gould so

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when i came to australia in 1996 i had

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this

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quite strong kind of familiarity with

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some of these beautiful birds i could

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not believe that i could look in my own

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garden

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and see these colorful parrots it was

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just like i was seeing a movie or

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something it was

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just

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deliciously extraordinary but what

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really shook me was the sound i was

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totally unprepared for the sound of a a

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yeah a self-requested cockatoo

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or a magpie or any of the others it's

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like shock

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and um

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and so

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i think that uh it's been a kind of

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interesting confluence of sort of coming

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at something from never seeing the real

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thing to them being in the presence of

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these incredible

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birds and um

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and just growing in respect and concern

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too because i think one of the things

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that uh came through with john

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elizabeth's work was that so much of

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their sort of documentation and they

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were the first publishers of any sound

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any

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uh comprehensive work on australian

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birds

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um that that was before

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significant settlement and an erosion of

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habitat and landscape and so

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um there are kind of a moment that they

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kind of crystallized in in their

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research and their

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that's interesting isn't it annette that

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that sense of the sound of the birds is

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um i just remember in the

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photographic portrait prize uh in 2020

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the the runner-up

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uh a beautiful portrait

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of of um

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of a dancer and she returned to

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australia because she missed the sound

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of a kookaburra that's what she wanted

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to wanted to hear

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yeah it's incredibly powerful and that i

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often think particularly when i see a

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tree of king parrots or something i

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think ah if i wasn't if i didn't have

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this all the time i would be

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absolutely

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gobsmacked this is you know it's they're

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extraordinary um

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uh extraordinary birds that we have in

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australia

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and i think it's like you say you kind

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of you kind of hear it but you don't

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necessarily identify it in the same way

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you can

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see birds going by and be mindful with

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that but when you are away

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how distinctive that is really comes

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home and i think that many australians

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outside australia would say that that is

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one of those sort of moments when they

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hear something it it's really

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um quite profound it's quite a visceral

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response when you hear an australian

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bird sound

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um yeah really evocative particularly a

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cocky up close unexpectedly

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kenny can i just jump in and interrupt

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for two seconds we've had a lot of

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people noticing and of course now that i

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draw attention to it it's uh gone camera

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shy but you had did have a visitor in

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your bird but

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magpie oh magpie oh this is the bird

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bath favoured by the karwong so that's a

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brave old magpie that's decided to get a

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look in there

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um annette do you want to just tell us

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about a little bit more about golden and

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perhaps the the finch that bears his

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name should we trap

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yeah so this is a portrait

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that we have in the collection of john

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gould and he was all of um 45 years old

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here and you can see

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somebody who looks um pretty confident

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unlike many of the other portraits that

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thomas

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thomas maguire made of eminent people of

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that time they're usually sitting down

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and i think it's interesting that he's

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standing he's definitely a man on the go

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and he was a naturalist but he was also

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a pretty canny

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man of his times businessman he really

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cornered the market in what was a

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fascination for new natural worlds

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and he

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um he and his wife elizabeth um came out

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to australia for two years from 1839.

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i'm 38 sorry and they um in that time

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they they traveled and john did what

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people did then which was to trap

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and shoot birds because they needed

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specimens and

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um

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ways to document to draw this is before

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photography was really taking off so

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that was their way of documentation but

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also

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um sort of naming so

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it's a moment

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of a kind of

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european recognition of what had already

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been there

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it's a different level of identification

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from

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indigenous identification of that

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natural environment and i think it's

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important to state that but it's also

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quite an interesting moment because it

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was just before

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massive settlement

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and so as i say they've been really

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interesting catch ups with the birds

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that um over 600 birds in their folios

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number of which have actually become

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extinct or endangered and one of those

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endangered groups is the golden finch

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which jungled um named for his wife

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elizabeth who died

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um

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in 1841 so it's a beautiful little grass

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finch and perhaps we go on and have a

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look at that picture if we can the next

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very well

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so

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this is their um illustration of

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the golden finch and it's a really

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beautiful little bird i mean many people

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will know them unfortunately one of the

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reasons why they're endangered is

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because of illegal

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um

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um bird trade um they're a very popular

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avery bird um but in their natural

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environment they would flow they'd fly

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in great flocks i mean imagine being in

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the company of

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hundreds

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of these colorful little birds flying

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together of you i mean it would just be

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spectacular

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and um

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they're really unusual for grass feeders

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because they are the only ones i just

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discovered this i didn't know it that

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actually nest in tree hollows

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and termite man so you can understand

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too that that's one of the reasons why

00:20:51.120 --> 00:20:53.120
their habitat has been so endangered

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because we've cleared so much of that

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land

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um

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they're beautiful little birds and um

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i have to say you know something that's

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kind of interesting

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to really bring this home the

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cabinet room in parliament they have

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they are decorated the walls are

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decorated with um a series of australian

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birds by john and gould and elizabeth

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and others

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and

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you would think sometimes that they

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might sort of send a little quiet

00:21:21.840 --> 00:21:24.159
tweeting message about the environments

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you know maybe

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they're not just decorative and fairly

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benign they actually have a message that

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you hope might kind of make some

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impression

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now annette just continue that thought

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on the collecting and the documenting of

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australian birds

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and just take us just mention one of the

00:21:45.840 --> 00:21:47.440
other portraits in the collection that

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we have that features birds in a

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slightly less active pose we might say

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yeah you want to just jump over to the

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next slide yes thank you

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so this is one of uh

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very earliest portraits in the

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collection from 1780

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so it's a really it's usually hung next

00:22:06.480 --> 00:22:08.400
to captain cook and there are

00:22:08.400 --> 00:22:10.400
correlations between them because these

00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:11.760
two figures

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dr johann reinhold foster and his son

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george foster

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actually accompanied uh captain cook on

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his second voyage on the resolution when

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he went wandering around

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um

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the pacific and to antarctica and um

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this is a portrait of them after they

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returned to england by jean francois

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rigol who is italian french artist and

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he's painted them in new zealand and

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he's painted them in the act of that

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they have actually trapped or shot birds

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um just dead

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at their knees i don't if you can make

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out they're as a waffle bird a

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saddleback

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and a honeyeater

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they're just at the bottom there

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and george the son is in the process of

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actually

00:22:57.679 --> 00:22:59.520
documenting what he can see maybe he's

00:22:59.520 --> 00:23:01.120
doing a drawing much as jungle would

00:23:01.120 --> 00:23:03.360
have done um later

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and above him is um is his dad

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johan and he is holding a bell bird in

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his hand

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and he's got a new zealand trigger plant

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in his head

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so they've been depicted in this in the

00:23:20.080 --> 00:23:21.600
environment in which they're actually

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working and they're such interesting

00:23:23.200 --> 00:23:26.159
people um johan was born in danzig but

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he was then he was educated in germany

00:23:28.480 --> 00:23:30.240
and he worked in russia and then he went

00:23:30.240 --> 00:23:32.240
to london so you can imagine he's pretty

00:23:32.240 --> 00:23:33.440
worldly

00:23:33.440 --> 00:23:36.480
and he was a scholar philosopher

00:23:36.480 --> 00:23:39.039
a translator and a writer and in fact

00:23:39.039 --> 00:23:40.640
the foresters are really responsible

00:23:40.640 --> 00:23:42.559
because they went back to germany

00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:44.960
for presenting to germans the best

00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:46.799
information that they would have at that

00:23:46.799 --> 00:23:48.960
time about the pacific and pacific

00:23:48.960 --> 00:23:50.320
islands so

00:23:50.320 --> 00:23:51.440
um

00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:54.000
it's an it's it just reminds us that

00:23:54.000 --> 00:23:56.559
this was this was quite a harsh

00:23:56.559 --> 00:23:58.720
process we're very good at tagging

00:23:58.720 --> 00:24:00.159
things today

00:24:00.159 --> 00:24:03.360
and being mindful of maintaining the

00:24:03.360 --> 00:24:05.919
health and the life of in our scientific

00:24:05.919 --> 00:24:08.320
research for animals and birds but that

00:24:08.320 --> 00:24:10.720
was not the case a long time ago

00:24:10.720 --> 00:24:12.480
that's right

00:24:12.480 --> 00:24:14.799
now from one that's a that's a lovely

00:24:14.799 --> 00:24:17.600
introduction to a later a later

00:24:17.600 --> 00:24:20.000
collector that i'd like to introduce you

00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:23.120
to who's featured in the collection um

00:24:23.120 --> 00:24:26.400
so so edward halstrom uh hector let's

00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:28.559
bring up the portrait of

00:24:28.559 --> 00:24:29.440
um

00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:33.520
sir edward house from by max dupain

00:24:33.520 --> 00:24:35.440
so

00:24:35.440 --> 00:24:38.400
maxie payne photographed halstrum

00:24:38.400 --> 00:24:41.120
at his home aviary as well as multiple

00:24:41.120 --> 00:24:44.400
trips between the 1940s and 1970s to

00:24:44.400 --> 00:24:46.559
taronga zoo um

00:24:46.559 --> 00:24:48.720
at which houston was a you know an

00:24:48.720 --> 00:24:52.240
enormously prolific um supporter and

00:24:52.240 --> 00:24:55.600
donor um and philanthropist made huge

00:24:55.600 --> 00:24:57.600
contributions to the development of that

00:24:57.600 --> 00:25:01.440
zoo but he also maintained a

00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:03.279
home aviary

00:25:03.279 --> 00:25:05.440
now i'll tell you where his money came

00:25:05.440 --> 00:25:07.360
from and who he is in a second but i

00:25:07.360 --> 00:25:09.440
want to first introduce because i would

00:25:09.440 --> 00:25:11.279
love to think this is a portrait of two

00:25:11.279 --> 00:25:12.559
cockatoos

00:25:12.559 --> 00:25:16.799
as much as as it is a portrait of

00:25:16.799 --> 00:25:18.240
this gentleman

00:25:18.240 --> 00:25:20.720
so these i'm pretty sure

00:25:20.720 --> 00:25:23.360
are red-tailed black cockatoos and the

00:25:23.360 --> 00:25:25.600
reason i say that is that and and they

00:25:25.600 --> 00:25:26.799
are kali

00:25:26.799 --> 00:25:29.120
khalip tarinkus banksia that's their

00:25:29.120 --> 00:25:31.120
scientific name

00:25:31.120 --> 00:25:33.360
and also irant in

00:25:33.360 --> 00:25:34.559
aranda

00:25:34.559 --> 00:25:36.480
from which is one of the places

00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:38.159
potentially these cockatoos were

00:25:38.159 --> 00:25:41.520
collected in the 1940s

00:25:41.520 --> 00:25:43.600
on lara pinta

00:25:43.600 --> 00:25:46.720
so you can see the distinctive way that

00:25:46.720 --> 00:25:48.880
the crest just comes a little bit

00:25:48.880 --> 00:25:51.360
forward over the over the beak there and

00:25:51.360 --> 00:25:53.520
that's a really distinctive thing for

00:25:53.520 --> 00:25:55.120
for a red-tailed black cooker too we

00:25:55.120 --> 00:25:57.520
actually have five um types of black

00:25:57.520 --> 00:26:00.159
cockatoo in australia so the the board

00:26:00.159 --> 00:26:02.080
downs the carnaby's the red tailed the

00:26:02.080 --> 00:26:04.720
yellowtail and the glossy and the

00:26:04.720 --> 00:26:06.960
yellowtailed are the ones you will all

00:26:06.960 --> 00:26:09.919
have enjoyed uh the amazing haunting

00:26:09.919 --> 00:26:13.600
sound of uh flying around canberra

00:26:13.600 --> 00:26:15.760
uh

00:26:15.760 --> 00:26:16.960
and so

00:26:16.960 --> 00:26:20.159
who is this um who is this chap

00:26:20.159 --> 00:26:23.200
so this is edward halstrom was basically

00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:27.200
a refrigeration magnate so he started

00:26:27.200 --> 00:26:28.640
his uh

00:26:28.640 --> 00:26:31.520
inventing new um ways to refrigerate in

00:26:31.520 --> 00:26:34.120
his backyard in dui in sydney in the

00:26:34.120 --> 00:26:37.679
1920s and by the 1940s he had founded

00:26:37.679 --> 00:26:40.880
silent night refrigerators um i wonder

00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:42.240
if any of you had a silent night

00:26:42.240 --> 00:26:45.279
refrigerator and had um and was you know

00:26:45.279 --> 00:26:47.760
hugely successful and he put a huge

00:26:47.760 --> 00:26:50.559
amount of his money into various causes

00:26:50.559 --> 00:26:54.480
one of them was uh was his collection

00:26:54.480 --> 00:26:57.039
and the support of taronga zoo now it's

00:26:57.039 --> 00:26:59.120
hard to know whether this um portrait

00:26:59.120 --> 00:27:00.720
was at the zoo

00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:05.039
or at his home because at his home he

00:27:05.039 --> 00:27:07.919
had an enormous aviary so i just want to

00:27:07.919 --> 00:27:10.320
quote you a nice description of this

00:27:10.320 --> 00:27:12.320
from a 1939

00:27:12.320 --> 00:27:14.960
newspaper article um

00:27:14.960 --> 00:27:17.360
so it's called the article is called 700

00:27:17.360 --> 00:27:20.559
birds answer back

00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:22.480
and sydney on friday

00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:25.440
700 parrots five tortoises two

00:27:25.440 --> 00:27:27.679
dalmatians and alsatian three well and

00:27:27.679 --> 00:27:30.080
three wallabies are the pets of edward

00:27:30.080 --> 00:27:32.320
halstrom of northbridge

00:27:32.320 --> 00:27:34.640
and he has taught every one of the 700

00:27:34.640 --> 00:27:36.399
birds to talk

00:27:36.399 --> 00:27:38.480
it is quite simple if you're prepared to

00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:40.720
spend the time said mr halstrom you

00:27:40.720 --> 00:27:42.480
simply talk to them as you would to

00:27:42.480 --> 00:27:44.960
human beings and in no time they're

00:27:44.960 --> 00:27:47.120
answering back now i do this with the

00:27:47.120 --> 00:27:48.720
magpies in the backyard and they've

00:27:48.720 --> 00:27:50.640
never answered back but just

00:27:50.640 --> 00:27:53.520
you know this is you know

00:27:53.520 --> 00:27:56.240
maybe if you haven't have 700 of them

00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:58.320
um

00:27:58.320 --> 00:28:00.799
he also so and it just goes on to

00:28:00.799 --> 00:28:03.120
describe the amount of food that he um

00:28:03.120 --> 00:28:06.159
he spent on them which was 100 weight of

00:28:06.159 --> 00:28:08.799
peanuts half a hundred weight of walnuts

00:28:08.799 --> 00:28:10.480
and 50 lettuces

00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:13.200
uh the weekly food bill for his parrot

00:28:13.200 --> 00:28:16.240
collection so he donated a huge number

00:28:16.240 --> 00:28:19.360
of birds via his personal collecting

00:28:19.360 --> 00:28:21.919
uh to taronga zoo and was hugely

00:28:21.919 --> 00:28:23.520
influential before

00:28:23.520 --> 00:28:26.240
in the days really before uh

00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:28.080
a massive sort of scientific and

00:28:28.080 --> 00:28:30.960
conservation turn you would have to say

00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:34.320
happened in the 1960s that with that zoo

00:28:34.320 --> 00:28:37.039
but he also founded a

00:28:37.039 --> 00:28:39.360
bird of paradise sanctuary in papua new

00:28:39.360 --> 00:28:42.240
guinea and i've even got

00:28:42.240 --> 00:28:45.200
a connection back to marina's

00:28:45.200 --> 00:28:47.039
connection to birds

00:28:47.039 --> 00:28:50.399
which is that he donated 29

00:28:50.399 --> 00:28:53.919
of order bonds illustrations of birds to

00:28:53.919 --> 00:28:56.320
the national gallery in washington and

00:28:56.320 --> 00:28:59.760
one of these is titled farmyard sales

00:28:59.760 --> 00:29:02.399
so there you go

00:29:02.399 --> 00:29:03.919
but yes so from

00:29:03.919 --> 00:29:06.640
from one collector to some beautiful

00:29:06.640 --> 00:29:09.760
depictions um and from sort of birds i i

00:29:09.760 --> 00:29:11.279
think we've we've had a few birds in

00:29:11.279 --> 00:29:14.159
captivity now so i'd love marina to take

00:29:14.159 --> 00:29:16.960
us to some some birds in the wild that

00:29:16.960 --> 00:29:18.240
are featured in

00:29:18.240 --> 00:29:20.159
uh one of our other

00:29:20.159 --> 00:29:23.039
portraits in the collection

00:29:23.039 --> 00:29:25.760
yeah thanks penny um and there's a nice

00:29:25.760 --> 00:29:26.720
um

00:29:26.720 --> 00:29:29.919
i guess there's a nice link between

00:29:29.919 --> 00:29:32.559
the red the red-tailed black cockatoo

00:29:32.559 --> 00:29:34.080
because the next portrait we're going to

00:29:34.080 --> 00:29:37.200
have a look at has um some red tail

00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:39.120
black cockatoos on it and so i'm going

00:29:39.120 --> 00:29:41.600
to have a look at the potter's portrait

00:29:41.600 --> 00:29:44.159
pot which is was made by the hermansburg

00:29:44.159 --> 00:29:46.480
potters it is a portrait that we've

00:29:46.480 --> 00:29:48.799
looked at in different programs

00:29:48.799 --> 00:29:50.720
and in today's program we're going to

00:29:50.720 --> 00:29:53.039
focus on the birds

00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:54.080
and

00:29:54.080 --> 00:29:57.919
in western arenda language the bird is

00:29:57.919 --> 00:29:59.120
sepa

00:29:59.120 --> 00:30:02.320
and so many birds is sepamata and so

00:30:02.320 --> 00:30:06.559
let's have a closer look at the pot

00:30:09.440 --> 00:30:12.320
so um so here's here's here's the part

00:30:12.320 --> 00:30:14.080
and for answer the humans book potters

00:30:14.080 --> 00:30:16.480
so the iron the women so you've got 10

00:30:16.480 --> 00:30:18.880
women who made this beautiful pot

00:30:18.880 --> 00:30:22.840
uh it's a coil pot terracotta made by

00:30:22.840 --> 00:30:24.559
hand

00:30:24.559 --> 00:30:27.360
and the hermansburg potters so they live

00:30:27.360 --> 00:30:29.279
in hermansburg nataria

00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:31.279
in the middle of australia

00:30:31.279 --> 00:30:34.240
and on their pots they depict

00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:36.720
their their world their country

00:30:36.720 --> 00:30:38.480
the things they see

00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:40.240
their stories

00:30:40.240 --> 00:30:41.360
their

00:30:41.360 --> 00:30:43.600
their favorite things

00:30:43.600 --> 00:30:45.600
each other can so

00:30:45.600 --> 00:30:48.480
all aspects of their life

00:30:48.480 --> 00:30:50.880
and in the potter's portrait part which

00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:52.559
is their self-portrait a collective

00:30:52.559 --> 00:30:55.679
self-portrait it's all about nataria

00:30:55.679 --> 00:30:57.440
um and

00:30:57.440 --> 00:30:58.320
like

00:30:58.320 --> 00:31:00.320
the lara pinto trail and things so i

00:31:00.320 --> 00:31:01.600
have bought

00:31:01.600 --> 00:31:04.799
my binoculars unlike pennies

00:31:04.799 --> 00:31:07.840
these are mine um everyone can have a

00:31:07.840 --> 00:31:09.279
set of these

00:31:09.279 --> 00:31:11.120
and they don't make your eyes go weird

00:31:11.120 --> 00:31:14.240
which is what binoculars do to my eyes

00:31:14.240 --> 00:31:16.320
um and because i feel like when i look

00:31:16.320 --> 00:31:18.399
at the pots so i've had a lot of fun

00:31:18.399 --> 00:31:21.120
trying to figure out which bird is whit

00:31:21.120 --> 00:31:23.279
and patrick has assisted in this and

00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:24.880
there are some birds

00:31:24.880 --> 00:31:26.720
we feel like we

00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:29.919
have identified and other birds

00:31:29.919 --> 00:31:32.799
that have question marks around them so

00:31:32.799 --> 00:31:35.600
the view of the pot that i can see here

00:31:35.600 --> 00:31:38.159
with my binoculars um can everyone see

00:31:38.159 --> 00:31:41.519
the red tail black cockatoos

00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:43.600
beautiful they're looking a lot calmer

00:31:43.600 --> 00:31:45.600
in this portrait than they were in the

00:31:45.600 --> 00:31:47.760
maelstrom portrait

00:31:47.760 --> 00:31:49.039
that's good they're having a bit of a

00:31:49.039 --> 00:31:50.880
better time rather than being in an

00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:52.399
aviary

00:31:52.399 --> 00:31:53.919
every year

00:31:53.919 --> 00:31:55.360
and there's some magpies there at the

00:31:55.360 --> 00:31:57.760
front too yep we've got a magpies at the

00:31:57.760 --> 00:32:00.399
front so we've got big magpies and then

00:32:00.399 --> 00:32:02.480
we have so next to the red tail black

00:32:02.480 --> 00:32:06.399
cockatoos can you see the willy wagtail

00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:07.760
oh yeah

00:32:07.760 --> 00:32:09.440
ah it's actually going the other way

00:32:09.440 --> 00:32:10.640
hector

00:32:10.640 --> 00:32:12.559
you move it up thank you

00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:14.240
so uh so you've got the the woolly

00:32:14.240 --> 00:32:16.559
wagtail and i have got

00:32:16.559 --> 00:32:18.640
what have i i've got a

00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:20.799
fun fact the willy worked house they

00:32:20.799 --> 00:32:23.039
make the most beautiful nests

00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:25.279
who's seen a willy wagtail nest

00:32:25.279 --> 00:32:26.960
they are absolutely beautiful they're

00:32:26.960 --> 00:32:29.840
like these perfect cup shaped

00:32:29.840 --> 00:32:31.200
vessels

00:32:31.200 --> 00:32:34.000
that are like woven grasses the outside

00:32:34.000 --> 00:32:36.480
of them they have spider webs on the

00:32:36.480 --> 00:32:39.279
outside and then they line them on the

00:32:39.279 --> 00:32:43.120
inside with soft grasses hair or fur if

00:32:43.120 --> 00:32:45.360
they can't find the fur they'll just

00:32:45.360 --> 00:32:47.520
take it off an animal they just go pick

00:32:47.520 --> 00:32:49.119
it off and pop it in there in their

00:32:49.119 --> 00:32:51.679
beautiful nest so um so there's the

00:32:51.679 --> 00:32:54.800
willy wagtail and then up the back the

00:32:54.800 --> 00:32:56.560
blue bird

00:32:56.560 --> 00:33:00.480
most probably the splendid fairy ring

00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:01.760
and they

00:33:01.760 --> 00:33:04.000
are just a little bunch of sass they're

00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:06.239
so they're they're um they sound

00:33:06.239 --> 00:33:10.239
adorable uh endemic to australia uh and

00:33:10.239 --> 00:33:12.800
they the male will pluck pink and purple

00:33:12.800 --> 00:33:13.918
petals

00:33:13.918 --> 00:33:17.199
to display to the female for courtship

00:33:17.199 --> 00:33:19.280
um but what i like about well i don't

00:33:19.280 --> 00:33:21.280
know if i like about it but the fun fact

00:33:21.280 --> 00:33:24.079
they're socially monogamous

00:33:24.079 --> 00:33:26.719
sexually promiscuous

00:33:26.719 --> 00:33:29.199
because a lot of birds mate for life

00:33:29.199 --> 00:33:31.520
but not the splendid fairy ren but they

00:33:31.520 --> 00:33:34.079
hang out together as a pair

00:33:34.079 --> 00:33:37.359
but yeah so that's interesting um

00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:39.760
but let us uh

00:33:39.760 --> 00:33:42.000
some other birds oh and before we move

00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:43.440
on i can see here this this is a

00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:46.000
fantastic it's the spinifex pigeon so

00:33:46.000 --> 00:33:48.800
the spinifex pigeon is below

00:33:48.800 --> 00:33:51.520
the splendid fairy wren the blue bird up

00:33:51.520 --> 00:33:53.200
the back and so it's sitting on a rock

00:33:53.200 --> 00:33:56.400
has this amazing plume on its head so

00:33:56.400 --> 00:33:58.480
it's also sometimes referred to as the

00:33:58.480 --> 00:34:00.560
plume pigeon there are four sorts of

00:34:00.560 --> 00:34:02.160
spinifex pigeon

00:34:02.160 --> 00:34:02.960
and

00:34:02.960 --> 00:34:04.320
they're really unusual because they're

00:34:04.320 --> 00:34:07.359
not nomadic they're pretty sedentary

00:34:07.359 --> 00:34:09.599
so they have to be near water and they

00:34:09.599 --> 00:34:12.400
can really tolerate the periods of

00:34:12.400 --> 00:34:14.880
drought and the heat that's in central

00:34:14.880 --> 00:34:17.920
australia very unusual they're rufus

00:34:17.920 --> 00:34:20.560
colored which is rusty i didn't know

00:34:20.560 --> 00:34:24.240
that um and they're a spectacular um

00:34:24.240 --> 00:34:26.400
bird and uh

00:34:26.400 --> 00:34:27.760
quite the ground dweller quite the

00:34:27.760 --> 00:34:29.920
forager

00:34:29.920 --> 00:34:32.960
so now um hector we might uh rotate

00:34:32.960 --> 00:34:34.839
around the pot a

00:34:34.839 --> 00:34:36.480
little

00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:38.560
and you see with my with these i can't

00:34:38.560 --> 00:34:40.079
actually see that well with the

00:34:40.079 --> 00:34:42.640
magnification but but near our red tail

00:34:42.640 --> 00:34:45.680
black cockatoo we uh

00:34:45.680 --> 00:34:48.480
we have some possibly a crow

00:34:48.480 --> 00:34:50.560
um up the back there above the church we

00:34:50.560 --> 00:34:51.680
might move around a little bit more

00:34:51.680 --> 00:34:54.400
hector please

00:34:54.800 --> 00:34:56.000
uh

00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:59.040
and a little bit more

00:34:59.359 --> 00:35:01.520
yeah so we've got some birds up the back

00:35:01.520 --> 00:35:04.800
there so above the church and

00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:06.320
some

00:35:06.320 --> 00:35:07.839
possibilities

00:35:07.839 --> 00:35:10.720
uh some possibilities is that that we

00:35:10.720 --> 00:35:13.359
have a hooded robin

00:35:13.359 --> 00:35:14.480
we have

00:35:14.480 --> 00:35:17.200
an australian bastard

00:35:17.200 --> 00:35:18.400
and the australian bus stop so that's

00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:20.480
the tall bird so it's sort of got the

00:35:20.480 --> 00:35:23.359
the white legs and it's all grayish and

00:35:23.359 --> 00:35:25.200
and the tall head they're enormous

00:35:25.200 --> 00:35:26.640
they're about a meter tall so they're

00:35:26.640 --> 00:35:29.119
one of our largest birds um and they're

00:35:29.119 --> 00:35:31.280
sometimes called a bush turkey

00:35:31.280 --> 00:35:34.960
and for the for arunda people they can't

00:35:34.960 --> 00:35:36.720
they have the birds

00:35:36.720 --> 00:35:38.480
not just that they would keep they have

00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:40.160
the birds they eat and the birds they

00:35:40.160 --> 00:35:42.160
don't eat but i i think the bastard

00:35:42.160 --> 00:35:45.440
might be um food some food

00:35:45.440 --> 00:35:47.440
uh we also have

00:35:47.440 --> 00:35:48.960
if we head around a little bit further

00:35:48.960 --> 00:35:51.280
hector

00:35:52.240 --> 00:35:55.280
we have um we have the a magpie lark and

00:35:55.280 --> 00:35:57.440
i like the magpie lark otherwise known

00:35:57.440 --> 00:35:58.800
as the peewee because it's neither

00:35:58.800 --> 00:36:02.079
related to the magpie or the lark

00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:03.680
so that's that's

00:36:03.680 --> 00:36:07.200
nicely named um and then we have next to

00:36:07.200 --> 00:36:09.440
that possibly a honey eater maybe a

00:36:09.440 --> 00:36:13.280
rufus banded honeyeater a pied

00:36:13.280 --> 00:36:14.400
honeyeater

00:36:14.400 --> 00:36:17.839
maybe a crested bell bird um so not so

00:36:17.839 --> 00:36:19.920
sure about that but below that little

00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:21.280
cluster

00:36:21.280 --> 00:36:22.560
the emu

00:36:22.560 --> 00:36:24.000
and the emu

00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:24.800
uh

00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:28.000
fantastic bird lots of fun facts

00:36:28.000 --> 00:36:31.280
emus two sets of eyelids and patrick has

00:36:31.280 --> 00:36:34.160
said this is not just foreign use but

00:36:34.160 --> 00:36:35.920
the emu does have two sets of eyelids so

00:36:35.920 --> 00:36:37.440
a regular set of eyelids like we would

00:36:37.440 --> 00:36:39.520
have and then they have a transparent

00:36:39.520 --> 00:36:41.040
pair of eyelids that they use when

00:36:41.040 --> 00:36:43.440
they're running at high speeds to keep

00:36:43.440 --> 00:36:45.760
the dust out of their eyes

00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:48.720
also emus it's the male that incubates

00:36:48.720 --> 00:36:49.760
the eggs

00:36:49.760 --> 00:36:51.760
he sits on the eggs for eight weeks

00:36:51.760 --> 00:36:54.320
doesn't eat or drink and then when the

00:36:54.320 --> 00:36:56.960
chicks hatch he raises them looks after

00:36:56.960 --> 00:36:59.599
them and teaches them how to

00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:02.960
hunt and eat for about 18 months

00:37:02.960 --> 00:37:04.640
there you go

00:37:04.640 --> 00:37:06.480
and seeing a father aim you with the

00:37:06.480 --> 00:37:09.680
chicks is really really special

00:37:09.680 --> 00:37:12.480
yeah and so i did i didn't realize um

00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:15.040
that and i wouldn't even need binoculars

00:37:15.040 --> 00:37:18.320
for that one because they're so big

00:37:18.320 --> 00:37:21.200
um and then near the emu possibly

00:37:21.200 --> 00:37:23.680
above near the head of the emu

00:37:23.680 --> 00:37:26.400
may be a wedgetail eagle

00:37:26.400 --> 00:37:29.839
but it could be a falcon could be a hawk

00:37:29.839 --> 00:37:32.560
so but if it is a way to tell eagle our

00:37:32.560 --> 00:37:34.960
largest bird of prey in australia and

00:37:34.960 --> 00:37:38.079
their nests can be two meters wide and

00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:40.400
three meters deep

00:37:40.400 --> 00:37:43.200
and other birds like a finch can

00:37:43.200 --> 00:37:46.160
actually make their nests under the

00:37:46.160 --> 00:37:48.800
wedgetail eagle nest which

00:37:48.800 --> 00:37:50.400
seems like it could be a bit risky but

00:37:50.400 --> 00:37:52.000
it actually means that because you're in

00:37:52.000 --> 00:37:53.760
the predator's nest that their other

00:37:53.760 --> 00:37:55.200
birds aren't going to come there you

00:37:55.200 --> 00:37:58.079
just gotta tuck yourself away

00:37:58.079 --> 00:37:59.040
um

00:37:59.040 --> 00:38:00.720
and then we also have the beautiful and

00:38:00.720 --> 00:38:02.400
we'll go one more uh one more trip

00:38:02.400 --> 00:38:03.920
around hector i think one more trip

00:38:03.920 --> 00:38:06.000
around and then we've got a beautiful

00:38:06.000 --> 00:38:08.880
owl and maybe a boo book

00:38:08.880 --> 00:38:10.880
maybe a barking owl

00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:13.680
but a beautiful owl and owls eyes at the

00:38:13.680 --> 00:38:15.680
front of their head um and then we've

00:38:15.680 --> 00:38:17.520
got our pink glass

00:38:17.520 --> 00:38:19.119
as well

00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:20.560
oh and maybe if we keep going around

00:38:20.560 --> 00:38:22.000
just quickly hector we'll keep we'll

00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:23.839
finish the loop

00:38:23.839 --> 00:38:25.839
because then we've got our pink color

00:38:25.839 --> 00:38:28.400
and we and then down to the left the

00:38:28.400 --> 00:38:29.920
budgerigar

00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:31.200
the budgie

00:38:31.200 --> 00:38:33.040
of course which is now in the world the

00:38:33.040 --> 00:38:36.240
most popular pet bird to have in one's

00:38:36.240 --> 00:38:39.520
home but it's endemic to australia

00:38:39.520 --> 00:38:41.359
um so i thank you thank you all for

00:38:41.359 --> 00:38:44.000
coming on my bird watching journey

00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:46.079
i think you've just proven contrary to

00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:48.400
your earlier claims that you are totally

00:38:48.400 --> 00:38:50.000
a birder

00:38:50.000 --> 00:38:52.000
well actually i do feel like i could get

00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:55.839
into it it's real it's sort of addictive

00:38:55.839 --> 00:38:58.800
it totally is it's absolutely addictive

00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:01.200
and it's lovely we've actually um

00:39:01.200 --> 00:39:03.359
made some nice connections between the

00:39:03.359 --> 00:39:05.280
different works because from the

00:39:05.280 --> 00:39:08.319
cockatoo connection between the last two

00:39:08.319 --> 00:39:11.599
uh to the magpie connection for our last

00:39:11.599 --> 00:39:14.480
portrait we'll look at today

00:39:14.480 --> 00:39:17.599
hector can we bring up the surprising

00:39:17.599 --> 00:39:19.280
last portrait bring it back to the

00:39:19.280 --> 00:39:20.800
familiar

00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:24.560
familiar backyard environment

00:39:28.720 --> 00:39:32.160
uh the john howard portrait

00:39:32.160 --> 00:39:34.640
there we go

00:39:34.640 --> 00:39:35.920
so

00:39:35.920 --> 00:39:38.079
we've got part of the part of national

00:39:38.079 --> 00:39:39.440
bird week

00:39:39.440 --> 00:39:42.960
is the aussie backyard bird count so i

00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:46.160
would very much urge you and celeb like

00:39:46.160 --> 00:39:48.720
along with john howard and jeanette uh

00:39:48.720 --> 00:39:51.440
former prime minister of australia and

00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:54.800
his wife uh they are in their backyard

00:39:54.800 --> 00:39:56.079
this happens to be the backyard of

00:39:56.079 --> 00:39:59.839
curability house in 2000 but

00:39:59.839 --> 00:40:02.640
i would urge you to all be inspired and

00:40:02.640 --> 00:40:04.160
get out and

00:40:04.160 --> 00:40:06.480
join the backyard bird count jump onto

00:40:06.480 --> 00:40:08.800
the birdlife website and

00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:11.040
and register there's 2 million birds

00:40:11.040 --> 00:40:13.760
have been counted so far and all birds

00:40:13.760 --> 00:40:16.160
are important if you've got any message

00:40:16.160 --> 00:40:17.280
through this

00:40:17.280 --> 00:40:21.760
through this talk um it's uh that it's a

00:40:21.760 --> 00:40:23.680
really exciting thing to be part of a

00:40:23.680 --> 00:40:26.000
big citizen science moment which we can

00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:28.400
celebrate in national bird week but if

00:40:28.400 --> 00:40:31.200
john and jeanette were here

00:40:31.200 --> 00:40:32.319
actually

00:40:32.319 --> 00:40:35.440
uh not posing for a portrait

00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:38.240
by um just sonia pelletis but um

00:40:38.240 --> 00:40:40.000
actually bird watching they would see

00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:42.000
that there is a magpie in the tree

00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:43.280
behind them

00:40:43.280 --> 00:40:45.599
so i think winner of bird of the year in

00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:48.240
2017 this is the this is the bird you'll

00:40:48.240 --> 00:40:50.800
all be be most familiar with

00:40:50.800 --> 00:40:54.160
and um i sort of i it's a i would i

00:40:54.160 --> 00:40:56.079
don't think the artist was intending any

00:40:56.079 --> 00:40:58.560
parallels with um the story of john

00:40:58.560 --> 00:41:00.960
howard and the story of the magpie but i

00:41:00.960 --> 00:41:02.800
thought there was some nice ones in that

00:41:02.800 --> 00:41:03.839
um

00:41:03.839 --> 00:41:05.359
john howard was our longest serving

00:41:05.359 --> 00:41:07.440
prime minister after menzies so and he

00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:10.079
was in parliament from 1974

00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:14.000
to uh 2007. the magpie

00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:16.480
occupies the same territory for its

00:41:16.480 --> 00:41:17.680
whole life

00:41:17.680 --> 00:41:19.920
so if you have magpies around your house

00:41:19.920 --> 00:41:22.560
they really are you know they're

00:41:22.560 --> 00:41:25.359
they're the magpies of your place

00:41:25.359 --> 00:41:27.359
and i thought another lovely parallel

00:41:27.359 --> 00:41:28.160
was

00:41:28.160 --> 00:41:31.359
uh the artist actually observed the the

00:41:31.359 --> 00:41:33.760
sort of sincere and unpretentious like

00:41:33.760 --> 00:41:36.720
just relationship that she was able to

00:41:36.720 --> 00:41:39.440
depict in this portrait between john and

00:41:39.440 --> 00:41:40.960
jeannette and they were particularly

00:41:40.960 --> 00:41:44.079
fond of this as well and magpies made

00:41:44.079 --> 00:41:46.160
for life there you go

00:41:46.160 --> 00:41:48.560
two completely probably unintended

00:41:48.560 --> 00:41:50.960
parallels between the life of the magpie

00:41:50.960 --> 00:41:55.359
and the life of john howard to to end um

00:41:55.359 --> 00:41:59.200
in this like very enjoyable national

00:41:59.200 --> 00:42:02.000
bird week discussion um and i just

00:42:02.000 --> 00:42:03.599
something else i've noticed about the

00:42:03.599 --> 00:42:05.520
magpie is the

00:42:05.520 --> 00:42:08.720
um when you see it sort of its head

00:42:08.720 --> 00:42:10.079
to the side

00:42:10.079 --> 00:42:11.920
um as it's walking around the garden and

00:42:11.920 --> 00:42:13.280
this is something you know this is why

00:42:13.280 --> 00:42:15.920
you can watch birds for hours

00:42:15.920 --> 00:42:18.000
it's actually listening for grubs and

00:42:18.000 --> 00:42:20.720
worms under the ground

00:42:20.720 --> 00:42:21.680
so

00:42:21.680 --> 00:42:24.960
i hope you've enjoyed this birdie tour

00:42:24.960 --> 00:42:28.240
we're going to finish with a few back to

00:42:28.240 --> 00:42:31.599
back to bird of the day and our

00:42:31.599 --> 00:42:35.359
in birds we're going to finish with

00:42:35.359 --> 00:42:37.440
a few of patrick's

00:42:37.440 --> 00:42:40.480
favorite robins

00:42:40.560 --> 00:42:42.240
so patrick will put in the chat what

00:42:42.240 --> 00:42:44.240
these robins are i think this is an

00:42:44.240 --> 00:42:46.640
eastern yellow robin

00:42:46.640 --> 00:42:48.160
i'm going to be checking the chat here

00:42:48.160 --> 00:42:51.359
in case i get this wrong

00:42:52.720 --> 00:42:54.960
these are you will see these ones around

00:42:54.960 --> 00:42:56.560
canberra all of these robins you'll see

00:42:56.560 --> 00:42:58.839
around canberra um they're really

00:42:58.839 --> 00:43:01.440
spectacular um and let's go to the next

00:43:01.440 --> 00:43:04.400
one hector

00:43:04.400 --> 00:43:08.160
i believe this is a rose robin

00:43:09.520 --> 00:43:11.680
hopefully patrick's correcting this

00:43:11.680 --> 00:43:14.960
if it's not correct is that right

00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:16.880
um

00:43:16.880 --> 00:43:18.000
and

00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:20.160
i absolutely love i can see why these

00:43:20.160 --> 00:43:21.680
are these are three of patrick's

00:43:21.680 --> 00:43:24.800
favorites um the rose robin um penny was

00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:26.800
taken at the australian botanic gardens

00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:29.520
ah yes i have seen this particular rose

00:43:29.520 --> 00:43:32.079
robin at botanic gardens if you head up

00:43:32.079 --> 00:43:34.880
when when um the gardens open up again

00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:37.280
um head up the back towards the the big

00:43:37.280 --> 00:43:39.440
trees at the back and there it's often

00:43:39.440 --> 00:43:40.400
there

00:43:40.400 --> 00:43:42.400
and the final robin that we'll leave you

00:43:42.400 --> 00:43:43.359
with

00:43:43.359 --> 00:43:46.400
to get you really inspired

00:43:46.400 --> 00:43:48.960
i think this is a scarlet robin

00:43:48.960 --> 00:43:50.800
is that right jill that's correct and it

00:43:50.800 --> 00:43:52.720
was taken at sherwood forest in the west

00:43:52.720 --> 00:43:54.160
of canberra i've never i never knew we

00:43:54.160 --> 00:43:55.680
had a sherwood forest at the west of

00:43:55.680 --> 00:43:57.839
canada

00:43:58.800 --> 00:44:01.920
so um so there you go hopefully this has

00:44:01.920 --> 00:44:03.839
inspired you to get out there and start

00:44:03.839 --> 00:44:05.920
counting birds and celebrate national

00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:07.839
bird week and

00:44:07.839 --> 00:44:10.240
um and it's been really enjoyable to see

00:44:10.240 --> 00:44:13.040
the birds go bird watching um in the

00:44:13.040 --> 00:44:15.520
national gallery collection

00:44:15.520 --> 00:44:17.680
um i'll hand back to you now jill thank

00:44:17.680 --> 00:44:20.640
you so much and marina

00:44:20.640 --> 00:44:22.079
thanks so much penny and thank you

00:44:22.079 --> 00:44:23.920
annette and thank you marina for all the

00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:25.440
stories that we've been sharing this

00:44:25.440 --> 00:44:27.200
afternoon and thank you so much to all

00:44:27.200 --> 00:44:29.440
of our audience members on zoom and on

00:44:29.440 --> 00:44:31.920
facebook who have been enthusiastically

00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:33.680
uh commenting on all of the different

00:44:33.680 --> 00:44:35.520
birds in the portraits that we've seen i

00:44:35.520 --> 00:44:37.839
think uh charmaine and georgia win the

00:44:37.839 --> 00:44:39.839
internet for saying that they uh they

00:44:39.839 --> 00:44:41.359
thought we should have uh featured a

00:44:41.359 --> 00:44:43.359
portrait of andrew peacock or perhaps

00:44:43.359 --> 00:44:45.839
bob hawk boom tish

00:44:45.839 --> 00:44:46.800
anyway

00:44:46.800 --> 00:44:48.400
thank you so much for joining us on our

00:44:48.400 --> 00:44:50.000
really enjoyable tour today i've had a

00:44:50.000 --> 00:44:52.079
such a lovely time it feels really um

00:44:52.079 --> 00:44:54.720
uplifting and soul-restoring to just sit

00:44:54.720 --> 00:44:56.640
and contemplate beautiful portraits of

00:44:56.640 --> 00:44:58.640
birds for 45 minutes

00:44:58.640 --> 00:45:00.800
um if anyone else would like to jump on

00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:03.119
our website portrait.gov.iu or social

00:45:03.119 --> 00:45:05.440
media portrait au to find out what's

00:45:05.440 --> 00:45:08.000
coming up next we've got another lovely

00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:10.400
gentle program on monday every monday

00:45:10.400 --> 00:45:12.160
mindfulness mondays where we get to take

00:45:12.160 --> 00:45:13.920
a really deep slow look at some of the

00:45:13.920 --> 00:45:15.280
portraits from our living memory

00:45:15.280 --> 00:45:16.720
exhibition

00:45:16.720 --> 00:45:17.920
uh

00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:19.200
from going from the sublime to the

00:45:19.200 --> 00:45:21.280
ridiculous i suppose then on tuesday we

00:45:21.280 --> 00:45:23.119
have a virtual highlights tour that's

00:45:23.119 --> 00:45:24.079
all about

00:45:24.079 --> 00:45:26.319
loud noise and noise makers and and

00:45:26.319 --> 00:45:28.240
musicians that are in our collection as

00:45:28.240 --> 00:45:29.359
well so

00:45:29.359 --> 00:45:31.040
please join us for those two and then

00:45:31.040 --> 00:45:33.040
thursday next thursday we're going to

00:45:33.040 --> 00:45:35.040
introduce you to another face of the

00:45:35.040 --> 00:45:36.640
portrait gallery that you haven't seen

00:45:36.640 --> 00:45:38.960
yet and that's our new associate create

00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:40.800
curator rebecca ray

00:45:40.800 --> 00:45:43.520
who has only just joined the mpg team

00:45:43.520 --> 00:45:45.359
and has already volunteered to jump in

00:45:45.359 --> 00:45:47.119
front of the camera to help us out with

00:45:47.119 --> 00:45:48.880
our next thursday's tour she hasn't even

00:45:48.880 --> 00:45:50.160
been in the actual portrait gallery

00:45:50.160 --> 00:45:52.319
building yet but

00:45:52.319 --> 00:45:54.960
she will jump on and host a tour for you

00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:57.920
next thursday so please jump on uh book

00:45:57.920 --> 00:46:00.079
in and stay safe and we'll see you

00:46:00.079 --> 00:46:04.920
online very soon thank you

00:46:23.040 --> 00:46:26.040
so

00:46:51.599 --> 00:46:54.599
she

00:47:17.280 --> 00:47:20.280
so

00:47:30.559 --> 00:47:33.559
so

00:47:44.319 --> 00:47:47.319
so