Talk:Australian white ibis

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The Australian white ibis (Threskiornis moluccus) is a wading bird of the ibis family, Threskiornithidae. Found in much of Australia, the species has become increasingly urban since the 1970s; this specimen was photographed in Perth.Photograph: JJ Harrison

Factual error

The ibis moved into the urban areas well before the late 1970s. They arrived in the mid to late 1960s. I first observed them in 1965 in Outer Western Sydney, during the drought, along with Spoonbills and other species that we didn't usually see on the Nepean. By 1967 a pair of ibis had built a nest and raised young on the top of the disused eagles cage at Taronga Zoo. By the early '70s the colony was well established in the palm trees on the island in the pool of the Royal Botanic Gardens and the birds were a common sight in Hyde Park, Sydney, and the Domain.

I cannot reference this. It is my own observation. But it was the result of the drought in the late '60s. During the winter of 1966 a huge flock of galahs flew into Sydney and settled in the bare Plane Trees by the ramp to Central Railway Station, turning the trees completely pink. It was spectacular. This rare event was not recorded in the pre-mobile phone days, and I tried in vain to get a Fairfax editor to take the event seriously enough to send a photographer a few hundreds yards down the street to capture it. Amandajm (talk) 03:39, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Just call it a Bin Chicken then!

I only came here to copy/paste some of the taxonomy bit for another article, but see I can't as some editors are so ridiculously offended by the common name. I am thinking a bunch of people don't understand how common names work -it is simply the most commonly used colloquial name for the organism in whatever language used. "Bin chicken" is by far the most popular name for this bird as reflected in Google hits. "Australian white ibis" is rather silly anyway, it was suggested by guide books & ornithologists in the 1990s when this bird was recognised as a separate species, before then it was known as the 'sacred ibis' -but it seems after a run of a two decades the English language hasn't really adopted it in favour of 'bin chicken'. Wikipedia shouldn't be mandating how people speak or call things in/use the English language, or any language for that matter. I very much doubt the bird will be offended if you call it whatever, you don't need to defend it's honour on it's behalf, or at least, not like this. Is SJW for birds really necessary? If a bunch of Yindjibarndi want to call it 'mardungurra', well good on them, right?! For all I know 'mardungurra' translates as 'horrible pile of dung', would you then force them to call it otherwise? This is what scientific nomenclature in Latin is for (among other things).

'Bin chicken' should be in bold next to or in front of 'Australian white ibis' as in the second to last revision ...and some people should get over themselves. As long as a majority of Australians continue to call it 'bin chicken', editors are going to continue to row against the tide here. Leo 86.83.56.115 (talk) 10:33, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

P.S.: The karyotype thing, ref.9, the study referenced does not support the statement in Wikipedia (taxonomy part). Leo 86.83.56.115 (talk) 10:37, 18 April 2018 (UTC)

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Indigenous retcon.

>It is known as mardungurra among the Yindjibarndi people of the central and western Pilbara.[8]

It was introduced to Western Australia in 1978. This appears to be indigenous retcon. Retcon of this nature detracts from indigenous history as small incorporated groups tend to fabricate things and make it up as they go - damaging the reliability of indigenous oral tradition rendering it untrustworthy. 121.210.33.50 (talk) 08:24, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Well, I've popped {{Dubious}} onto that statement - no pronounciation on factual value. Do you have access to the cited book? --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 16:47, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Someone removed that section in the last version. They said "there are hundreds of ATSI languages - no reason to prioritise this one, particularly as the ibis is not native to that country." Okay420 (talk) 05:23, 10 October 2021 (UTC)

Subspecies merge

Support the February proposal to merge the subspecies Solomons white ibis to here; subspecies are best covered on the species page. Klbrain (talk) 09:45, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

Support the merger of Solomons white ibis. It would be good if something could be said about the Australasian white ibis subspecies at the same time as it is mentioned in the box but nowhere else. Thought should be given about how to present conservation status, etc. for the subspecies. Gusfriend (talk) 05:52, 24 January 2022 (UTC)

Support Birdlife International does not recognise it as a separate species so I believe that is should merge HaraldW1954 (talk) 7 June 2022

  Y Merger complete. Klbrain (talk) 07:30, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

origin

does anyone really think it's from Egypt? Irtapil (talk) 01:31, 14 January 2022 (UTC)

It is native to Australia Ibisczarnopiory (talk) 21:19, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

Slang name for bin chicken chicks

could we possibly call the young of a bin chicken an apprentice? 116.255.45.244 (talk) 07:58, 12 October 2024 (UTC)