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Speaker 4: This is the Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 2: Christian, the bird that you're doing the impression of. I
Speaker 2: don't know what the bird is, but it's exactly the
Speaker 2: same as a bird that I threw a shoe app
Speaker 2: thirty years ago that used to live at my mom
Speaker 2: and dad's place in the tree.
Speaker 1: The shoe is still in the tree to.
Speaker 2: This day, stuck in this bird and it goes like this,
Speaker 2: uh huh, what is that?
Speaker 1: It's not a wattle bird? Christian? Is it the bird
Speaker 1: from the movie Up? No?
Speaker 2: Is it a drong goo? I don't believe that's a bird?
Speaker 2: So is it a butcher bird? Never heard of that?
Speaker 2: I don't know, but it's a very common Australian one.
Speaker 2: But what is it?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 5: Now I've got an app. It's like a Shazam for
Speaker 5: birds called I.
Speaker 2: Used to have this There's a Bird Love. I had
Speaker 2: it for about five years. I've never used it once
Speaker 2: and it was like thirty bucks a year, So I
Speaker 2: just you know where you would actually have these things
Speaker 2: just running, and my wife was like, what is this
Speaker 2: with you're paying Merlin, the mythical Merlin the King Arthur
Speaker 2: Pendragon story. So oh no, that's a bird sporting acts
Speaker 2: that way. I'm married to a guy who has it.
Speaker 2: App You've never you know it's going to go. I've
Speaker 2: never used it.
Speaker 1: But now I need it. What does it say? It is?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 5: I need you to do it live into the phones.
Speaker 5: I'm going to come around.
Speaker 2: I'm around. I will prepare myself right Ah, I wants
Speaker 2: more please?
Speaker 6: Ah? Eh?
Speaker 1: Is that? What is that bird? I thought there's one
Speaker 1: in here? Yeah, but what is it? It's a very
Speaker 1: Australian bird, isn't it. You've heard this one?
Speaker 2: It starts, It starts at about five am, the morning bird.
Speaker 1: It's a morning it can literally. In fact, I know
Speaker 1: it starts. It wakes up later than we do because
Speaker 1: I know if I ever hear it, I'm not going
Speaker 1: to get it's.
Speaker 5: Your alarm clock.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's a backup. Now what it's Merlin saying?
Speaker 5: It says, sorry cannot.
Speaker 4: Christian Connell Show podcast.
Speaker 2: Now it's not a dove, it's not a pigeon. No, no, no,
Speaker 2: it's rarer than that. But common. It's rare and common.
Speaker 2: What is this bird that goes?
Speaker 1: You hear it every morning hiding in playing sight.
Speaker 2: It is driving me and judging my The many many
Speaker 2: text are coming in now I'm passing it on to
Speaker 2: every poor innocent listener who's now going is it a dove?
Speaker 2: Yesterday my wife and I feel our dinner. We had
Speaker 2: chicken tie balls. One thee was left over, and that
Speaker 2: that into work today. Right, So it's in the fridge here,
Speaker 2: cooling nicely to have a cold chicken tie flavored ball.
Speaker 2: My wife goes, I'm sure someone else went taking that
Speaker 2: for the fridge went. No other human being. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: want this. This is unstealable. Sometimes, you know, other people
Speaker 2: do help themselves with certain food and I accident accidentally
Speaker 2: ate someone sandwich here left ten bucks to them to
Speaker 2: buy a new one so bad.
Speaker 1: It was a lot better. It's an upgrade than the
Speaker 1: one I brought.
Speaker 2: But no one is going into that work fridge and
Speaker 2: taking my Why is this a low chicken will cut
Speaker 2: in tupper weather?
Speaker 1: There's not.
Speaker 2: There's a dry one, just cutting half like a madman's snack.
Speaker 1: Madman is ready cold and raw dog in it.
Speaker 5: For what sort of meal. Do you think is that
Speaker 5: your lunch or is that morning tea?
Speaker 1: Or that's not him? Oh my.
Speaker 7: Tear me up?
Speaker 1: Yeah, rotine power punch.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Now in show we had an email and to be
Speaker 2: back to school. And I don't know if this they
Speaker 2: even still do this now, But do you remember when
Speaker 2: there used to be a class pet table idea and
Speaker 2: then young psychos were allowed to look after over the
Speaker 2: weekend and hilarity did not ensue normally that thing was
Speaker 2: lost or worse than that, perished over the weekend. But
Speaker 2: it used to be a well known thing, didn't it.
Speaker 2: A class would have you know it, maybe something like
Speaker 2: a guinea pig. Did you guys ever get to look
Speaker 2: after it? I was never trusted with it.
Speaker 7: Yeah. We had mice in year seven, lucky parents. For
Speaker 7: science we had to do mice. We had these white
Speaker 7: mice and we looked after It was for the whole year,
Speaker 7: and we had about.
Speaker 1: Class of simpletons in that whole year.
Speaker 2: Must have been a bunch of thickies that could like,
Speaker 2: oh we got a special thing and just grab that.
Speaker 1: Probably a rat, actually that was just a big ass.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, that's Marsel the mouse, big thick tail
Speaker 1: foot long road.
Speaker 7: And they lived in this big sort of kind of
Speaker 7: house outhouse off the science wing at high school, and
Speaker 7: it's stank.
Speaker 1: Do you remember the Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2: The science room or the science pot had that little
Speaker 2: outhouse where they would conduct weird experiments in there, probably
Speaker 2: for nefarious government agencies. I thought, you know they're up
Speaker 2: to they're up to shnanigans in the skullduggery is one
Speaker 2: went on with those mice in there.
Speaker 1: More than just our teaching.
Speaker 7: Mister Novak used to go in there and have a
Speaker 7: durry at lunchtime and have a cigarette in amongst the smell.
Speaker 2: Yes, all the all the teachers right in the eighties
Speaker 2: all smoked. Jimmy, you walk past that teacher's room. They
Speaker 2: had that room where they were just crying there and
Speaker 2: drink heavily.
Speaker 1: And also they didn't like you.
Speaker 2: We used to always like walk by and just stare
Speaker 2: at the right and they used to go berserk, like
Speaker 2: bang them.
Speaker 1: When you go stop. Look again.
Speaker 2: They needed that break, and it was like thick winds.
Speaker 2: And also not just cigarette smoke like fall to a
Speaker 2: secrets pipes. There's no teachers now smoking pipes. But they
Speaker 2: were like especially the older teachers like history teachers.
Speaker 7: About it was always the history teacher had a pipe.
Speaker 1: Big old thick pipe.
Speaker 7: Yeah, just like city in big old stone there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, our one, right.
Speaker 2: I used to smoke a pipe during class, so we
Speaker 2: do Wilson to make a salient point and it would
Speaker 2: take it out on points the mouth and you, boy,
Speaker 2: I don't see after start chewing on that fillows cancer
Speaker 2: states out.
Speaker 1: Of the pipe between their teeth.
Speaker 7: Yeah, we had mice.
Speaker 1: Alex, what did you have? We didn't.
Speaker 2: We didn't have any of the boarding school each other
Speaker 2: around in the old pet about there again in the
Speaker 2: dorms light.
Speaker 1: Being in the country. I don't think they really trusted it.
Speaker 1: Heavy class pit. No, we didn't have any. We had
Speaker 1: lots of snakes in the in the school. We were
Speaker 1: talking about the other day.
Speaker 2: To take a pet snake over, especially brown dad, look
Speaker 2: at this snake at school. Probably I reckon once a
Speaker 2: month at least. But no, we never had a pit.
Speaker 2: Did you ever get taken back? I imagine you were
Speaker 2: a prefect like Patsy.
Speaker 5: I think the pets were. I mean I was school
Speaker 5: vice captain.
Speaker 1: But it debate captain.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I think it was getting phased out. I'd
Speaker 5: love to know people still do it, because we didn't
Speaker 5: have any pets by all the time I was at school.
Speaker 2: You weren't, just didn't. I can't imagine it's allowed to
Speaker 2: do now. It seems crazy and rightly so. Animals have rights,
Speaker 2: and one of them is young psychos aka kids don't
Speaker 2: look after us at the weekend. People that can't look
Speaker 2: after themselves and trusted with a school pet. It's a
Speaker 2: terrible idea, all right, called it now thirteen fifty five
Speaker 2: twenty two. Did you get to look after the class pet?
Speaker 1: What was it? And does it still happen to this day?
Speaker 4: You were Christian O'Connell show podcast.
Speaker 1: Taking you back to school, two women.
Speaker 2: We used to have class pets, an actual animal and
Speaker 2: then wait for it. The kicker is we were allowed
Speaker 2: to take it home, so I revenber. Actually sometimes during
Speaker 2: the summer holidays someone would have it for a couple
Speaker 2: of weeks and that you never saw that animal ever again.
Speaker 1: It was everything brought up, like, hey, why has that rabbit?
Speaker 2: By the way, they weren't even asked. The school were
Speaker 2: like and that's the end of that problem. Though, because
Speaker 2: one of the old thickies has got it, you know,
Speaker 2: like from some meny. Yes, Lenny, we've got a real
Speaker 2: life Lenny, I didn't heard a rabbit.
Speaker 1: Blenda's on the line. Blenda, you're a teacher.
Speaker 6: Yes i am. I'm a primary school teacher, right, just.
Speaker 2: Who we're looking for this morning. So do you still
Speaker 2: have class pets?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 6: Up until five Up until five years ago, I had
Speaker 6: four blue tongue lizards and quite a lot of finally
Speaker 6: stick insects, right.
Speaker 2: Right, all right, And so there's no more of this
Speaker 2: any more. Kids getting to look after over the weekend.
Speaker 6: Well, they used to see them during class and take
Speaker 6: them out. They'd stick the spine leaf stick insects on
Speaker 6: their pencil cases, or they call up their arms on
Speaker 6: their heads, and when the stick insects multiplied, they would
Speaker 6: be able to take them home and peat them. Right,
Speaker 6: because when they multiplied, you'd get hundreds.
Speaker 2: It's the seven of the rabbits as well. Stick Linda,
Speaker 2: Thank you very much. You cool have a good day.
Speaker 2: You two buye Now tell me.
Speaker 1: About Sean Dooley.
Speaker 2: You've got very excited just now, Yes is making a
Speaker 2: cup of tea. Came back in the studio and the
Speaker 2: Rio pro was very excited. Who is Sean Dooley.
Speaker 5: This is the Sean Dooley. He's the Chief BURDENRD of Australia. Yes,
Speaker 5: and he used to have a segment I believe called
Speaker 5: squawk Back on ABC Radio.
Speaker 2: Bring it Back, Bring It Back, Sean. Just a man,
Speaker 2: I need to speak to Sean. Welcome to the show.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Christian.
Speaker 1: So you're a fellow bird lover. Are you an ornithologist?
Speaker 3: No, no, but I am. I work with BirdLife Australia
Speaker 3: who run the Aussie Bird Count every year, which is
Speaker 3: just about to kick off in October. So I'm on
Speaker 3: the bridge between the bird nerds and the general public translator.
Speaker 1: Yes, right, I gotcha.
Speaker 3: I speak bird and.
Speaker 1: Love it Sean. What is the bird Count then? What
Speaker 1: is that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a thing we do at BirdLife Australia every
Speaker 3: year where we get people to count the download the
Speaker 3: bird Count app and count birds in their backyard.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, we got we're talking Okay, the listeners
Speaker 1: to do this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we'd love it because it feels in a
Speaker 3: huge gap of knowledge for us at BirdLife because we
Speaker 3: don't know enough about our common birds. We focus generally
Speaker 3: on rare birds and so this really helps, but also
Speaker 3: it means that people can work out what what the
Speaker 3: hell it is that's making that noise.
Speaker 1: In that that's me. That's me today, Shawn, You're just right.
Speaker 3: I made this app I do.
Speaker 1: What's the app?
Speaker 2: Because I know there's probably a lot of people listening
Speaker 2: that fancy doing this and if you've got kids and family,
Speaker 2: what a great thing to do teaching about the ones
Speaker 2: of the natural world.
Speaker 1: What's the app?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's called the Ossie bird Camp app and it's
Speaker 3: the registrations have just open so you can download it,
Speaker 3: but you can't count until October. But there's a little
Speaker 3: feature on the app which you can put the details
Speaker 3: of a bird you see, like its size, shape and color,
Speaker 3: and it'll give you some suggestions with photos of what
Speaker 3: that bird might actually be that's driving in nuts in
Speaker 3: your backyard.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is me right now? Then?
Speaker 2: What by Sean is this? It's three parts to it.
Speaker 2: It's uh all day long, twenty four seven. It goes
Speaker 2: to work at about five thirty am.
Speaker 1: Uh uh what is that?
Speaker 3: Sean Unkenny? Is your just what your impersonation is? I
Speaker 3: think with the tonya using I reckon It's actually a
Speaker 3: pied curral which is like a member of the magpie family,
Speaker 3: but it's a bit bigger, with a with a yellow
Speaker 3: eye and much more black. And they people who've been
Speaker 3: to the snow would know it because it used to
Speaker 3: sort of only be up in the mountains, but they've
Speaker 3: they've migrated into the cities in like Sydney in the
Speaker 3: eighties and nineties, then Melbourne in the last twenty years.
Speaker 3: And I reckon that that might that might be the call.
Speaker 3: It's giving a it's quite a loud one and.
Speaker 2: Yeah, really really, i'd say loud splash irritating.
Speaker 1: You can't sleep in at the weekend.
Speaker 2: That thing is up there at like five thirty am.
Speaker 2: It's like, get up and you can't turn that. You know,
Speaker 2: some bird noises you turn them off, you can kind
Speaker 2: of like.
Speaker 1: So it's a pied.
Speaker 3: Krawan, yes, yeah, black and white one.
Speaker 1: So there different types of krawan.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a there's a gray carawong, but that's much
Speaker 3: more found out in the bush, right, and so you
Speaker 3: get it on the fringes of Melbourne and sort of
Speaker 3: Geelong and prices like that, but it's not really in
Speaker 3: the suburbs much. There's another line in Tezzi called the
Speaker 3: Black carow On, which is the biggest of the lot.
Speaker 2: It would be over there now, Sean. This has been
Speaker 2: a really really enjoyable chat my friend. Now I've got
Speaker 2: your number, I know we are so we can start
Speaker 2: counting the birds in the backyard in October and its
Speaker 2: Aussie Bird.
Speaker 1: Count is the app.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: Great lovely to chat to. Sean. Have a great day.
Speaker 1: Thanks you calling the show.
Speaker 3: Thanks mate.
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