Talk:Magpie-lark

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message: This is very wrong. I myself witnessed the magpie-lark attacking people, two times around October 2007 and twice this year in September, all instances at the Fawkner Park and right in front of the Alfred Hospital, Commercial Road in Melbourne. The Magpie-larks swoop on people around (nearby their nesting tree) and peck people's eyes. In one instance the bird managed to peck right into the eye ball and the victim needed to see a doctor. They're very fast, attacking from behind and turning quickly into a person's face.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.51.160.32 (talk) 10:38, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Strange. If there is a published source which says this we can add it. Cheers, Casliber (talk · contribs) 17:58, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a Magpie (not a Magpie-Lark) to me. Aviceda  talk 18:04, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

text: I agree the report above is most likely an Australian Magpie. Note this report is from Melbourne, where the "Magpie-lark" is known under other names, so the person reporting probably thought this article is about the Australian Magpie. But strangely, i have been "attacked", just once by a "Magpie-lark", in Canberra circa 2000. (BTW i don't know what they call these birds in Canberra. Where i come from they are "peewee".) Not a very agressive attack, but similar in style to a magpie, and with a perfect imitation of a magpie attack call. This felt really weird. I've never heard of it happening otherwise, and i guess it's very rare. 198.142.12.197 (talk) 11:15, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  They are not known to attack people. 

message: The link - While containing a parameter to take you to specific page, takes you to default page for site.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarkN0062 (talk • contribs) 20:45, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link useless. 

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message: Snowmanradio recently replaced the old FP of a male in the infobox with another, but I'm unclear why it's better.  Some discussion here would be appreciated. --99of9 (talk) 03:28, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: *I concur, and think the FP is better and should be reinstated. Sabine's Sunbird  talk 04:37, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taxobox image of male 

message: The duet-style singing of the peewee (call it what you will) needs a little bit more elaboration. The two-note call that gives it one of its common names ("peewee") is sung in an interleaved style. One bird sings the "pee", the other sings the "wee". The formal name for this kind of singing is "antiphonal", meaning more-or-less "opposing voices".
58.167.64.35 (talk) 12:08, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia really needs more content on duet bird calls (for example, it could cite ), perhaps as a subsection of bird vocalisation. However, this article is the wrong place to keep such an expanded general section on bird duets. Also, inline citations needed. Cesiumfrog (talk) 19:26, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  More info about their singing. 

message: There is an anecdotal story that this is the Australian bird with the most common names. Not sure how you would go about getting a credible reference for that. The most amusing common name for this guy that I have heard is "Percy Pisswhacker".
58.167.64.35 (talk) 12:11, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like a challenge....there are definitely heaps...Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 00:42, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The difficulty is knowing whether any of these names were ever really current. For the birds in the UK there is Swainson's 1885 Provincial names and folk lore of British birds with long lists of names for every species - for the chaffinch there is this. - Aa77zz (talk) 11:34, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, what a great book! Regarding this species, certainly mudlark (what Victorians called them), peewee (what we call them) and magpie-lark (IOC name and becoming more prevalent/absolute name) are all very common. The good thing is finding a source that gives some context - when and where names were used. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 12:08, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  More common names? 

message: The long block of text "Native birds and their nests ... helmets like antennae" (in this version) reads like a how-to and was lifted from a source which is (a) specific to WA, and (b) generic to all swooping birds.  I think we can remove all of that rather than trying to rework it into encyclopaedic style; hope that doesn't upset anybody. 
(The source itself is still significant because it does list the peewee as a bird that swoops on humans, something I was surprised to learn.)
It makes sense to talk about anti-swooping practices in an article like Australian magpie.  The magpie is notorious for that behavior, so if an Australian sees somebody with a spiky bike helmet, s/he will immediately think "magpie".  But we don't need to repeat the same advice for every bird that swoops. 
Pelagic (talk) 13:56, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, did I write that seven years ago? The memory eludes me. But here it is in black-and-white. ⁓ Pelagic ( messages ) 23:24, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:   Swooping avoidance 

message: This includes a direct copy of several lines from the Red Wattlebird entry. I'd delete it but I don't know which indigenous names listed apply to wattlebirds or magpie-larks. Can somebody help please?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:8003:1015:9E00:1D29:7137:9484:5C16 (talk) 02:50, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taxonomy