From Farmers Friend to Bin Chicken: The Australian White Ibis and Post-Federation Nation Building

Allatson, P; Connor, A

From Farmers Friend to Bin Chicken: The Australian White Ibis and Post-Federation Nation Building

Allatson, P

Connor, A

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dc.contributor.author	Allatson, P https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2248-1605
dc.contributor.author	Connor, A
dc.date.accessioned	2023-11-29T02:44:49Z
dc.date.available	2023-11-29T02:44:49Z
dc.date.issued	2023-11-28
dc.identifier.citation	2023
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/173614
dc.description.abstract	We are used to seeing the Australian White Ibis in cities and thinking of the journey of ibis as one of becoming urban from traditional wetlands across the Murray Darling Basin to the streetscapes of Australia’s coastal towns and cities. This becoming urban journey of the Australian White Ibis, as we’ve argued elsewhere, is a story of adaptability that has also generated significant cultural notoriety, as witnessed by the phenomenon of the Bin Chicken. But this story of ibis migration to cities can reinforce a rather simplistic urban-wilderness divide that glosses over another important story of Ibis migration and adaptation. Long before the Ibis began migrating into Australia’s coastal cities, driven by drought and wetland degradation, the Australian White Ibis and its close relative the Straw-necked Ibis, were adapting to the land management practices of white settler agriculture.
dc.language	en
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.title	From Farmers Friend to Bin Chicken: The Australian White Ibis and Post-Federation Nation Building
dc.type	Presentation
utslib.location.activity	Australasian Animal Studies Association Conference, University of Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/School of International Studies
utslib.copyright.status	open_access	*
dc.date.updated	2023-11-29T02:44:48Z

Abstract:

We are used to seeing the Australian White Ibis in cities and thinking of the journey of ibis as one of becoming urban from traditional wetlands across the Murray Darling Basin to the streetscapes of Australia’s coastal towns and cities. This becoming urban journey of the Australian White Ibis, as we’ve argued elsewhere, is a story of adaptability that has also generated significant cultural notoriety, as witnessed by the phenomenon of the Bin Chicken. But this story of ibis migration to cities can reinforce a rather simplistic urban-wilderness divide that glosses over another important story of Ibis migration and adaptation. Long before the Ibis began migrating into Australia’s coastal cities, driven by drought and wetland degradation, the Australian White Ibis and its close relative the Straw-necked Ibis, were adapting to the land management practices of white settler agriculture.

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