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Pirlamunga: Billy Goat Plum Terminalia ferdinandiana Mayimampi: Magpie Goose Anseranas semipalmata Kanuli: Cocky Apple Planchonia careya Jurriyi: Whistling Duck Dendrocygna spp. Kipopi: Northern Brown Bandicoot Isoodon macrourus Wupwarna: Bush Pumpkin Amorphophallus paeoniifolius Piranga: Long Bums Telescopium telescopium Martapaka eggs: Crested Tern Sterna bergii Mirnangini: Cockle Anadara granosa Kurumpuka: Mud crab Scylla serrata Malikini: Peanut Tree Sterculia quadrifida Tarnikini: Black Flying-fox Pteropus alecto Purnarrika: Water Lily Nymphaea violacea Jukwarringa: Mussel Polymesoda erosa Kurlama: Round Yam Dioscorea bulbifera Miyaringa: Pandanus Pandanus spiralis Jipwajirringa: Agile Wallaby Macropus agilis Kawarri: Yellow-spotted monitor Varanus panoptes Minta: Cycad Cycas armstrongii Wuninga: Northern Brushtail Possum Trichosurus vulpecula Kawukawuni: Bush Turkey Ardeotis australis Yilinga: Carpet Python Morelia spilota Yurwuli: Mangrove Worms Yingwati: Sugarbag Wurnika: Black Plum Vitex glabrata Mantuwujini: Dugong Dugong dugon Karaka: Turtle Eggs Jarrakalaninga: Turtles Muranga: Long Yam Dioscorea transversa Parntirringa: White Currant Flueggea virosa Jaliwaki: Bush Potato Brachystelma glabriflorum Arlaminga: Barramundi Lates calcarifer Yirrikipayi: Saltwater Crocodile Crocodylus porosus Yankumwani: Green Plum Buchanania obovata Pinyama: Pink Beach Apple Syzygium suborbiculare Jimijinga: Milky Plum Persoonia falcata Tiwi ecological knowledge: Bernard Tipiloura, John Wilson, Lynette Johnson, Jacinta Tipungwuti, Eunice Orsto, and Judy Puruntatameri. Puruntatameri, J. et al (2001) Tiwi Plants and Animals: Aboriginal flora and fauna knowledge from Bathurst and Melville Islands, northern Australia. Parks and Wildlife Commission of the NT and Tiwi Land Council, Darwin. Images: Peter Eve, Jeremy Cresswell, Keith McGuinness, Barbara McKaige, Henry Cook, Russell Cumming, Craig Nieminski, Nic Smith, Emma Ligtermoet, Nic Gambold, Liz Thompson, Jacinda Brown, Glenn Wightman, Ian Morris, David Curl, Emma Woodward, Greg Miles, Lochman Transparencies, Auscape, Lorraine Williams and Gary Bell/OceanwideImages.com Compilation and Production: Barbara McKaige CSIRO (2014) Design and Layout: First Class in Graphic Design. © Copyright is owned by the Tiwi Land Council and CSIRO. This publication cannot be reproduced without consent. CSIRO Darwin: phone 08 8944 8400, Tiwi Land Council: phone 08 8970 9373 T i w i P l a n t s a n d A n i m a l s T I W I I S L A N D S - N O R T H E R N T E R R I T O R Y - A U S T R A L I A K u m u n u p u n a r i T h e d r y se as o n o f f r e a n d s m o k e J a m u t a k a ri T h e w et se a so n T i y a r i T h e s e a s o n o f h o t w e a t h e r a n d h i g h h u m i d i t y J A N U A R Y F E B R U A R Y M A R C H A P R I L M A Y J U N E J U L Y A U G U S T S E P T E M B E R O C T O B E R D E C E M B E R N O V E M B E R

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Page 1: im a l s t wi isl ea n d tA n P i r i l a i m Pi r l i ands- a …...Telescopium telescopium Martapaka eggs: Crested Tern Sterna bergii Mirnangini: Cockle Anadara granosa Kurumpuka:

Pirlamunga: Billy Goat Plum

Terminalia ferdinandiana

Mayimampi: Magpie Goose

Anseranas semipalmataKanuli: Cocky Apple

Planchonia careya

Jurriyi: Whistling Duck

Dendrocygna spp.

Kipopi: Northern Brown Bandicoot

Isoodon macrourus

Wupwarna: Bush Pumpkin Amorphophallus paeoniifolius

Piranga: Long Bums Telescopium telescopium

Martapaka eggs: Crested Tern Sterna bergii

Mirnangini: Cockle Anadara granosa

Kurumpuka: Mud crab Scylla serrata

Malikini: Peanut Tree Sterculia quadrifida

Tarnikini: Black Flying-fox Pteropus alecto

Purnarrika: Water Lily Nymphaea violacea

Jukwarringa: Mussel Polymesoda erosa

Kurlama: Round Yam Dioscorea bulbifera

Miyaringa: Pandanus Pandanus spiralis

Jipwajirringa: Agile Wallaby Macropus agilis

Kawarri: Yellow-spotted monitor Varanus panoptes

Minta: Cycad Cycas armstrongii

Wuninga: Northern Brushtail Possum

Trichosurus vulpecula

Kawukawuni: Bush Turkey

Ardeotis australisYilinga: Carpet Python Morelia spilota

Yurwuli: Mangrove Worms

Yingwati: Sugarbag

Wurnika: Black Plum Vitex glabrata

Mantuwujini: Dugong Dugong dugon

Karaka: Turtle Eggs

Jarrakalaninga: Turtles

Muranga: Long Yam Dioscorea transversa

Parntirringa: White Currant Flueggea virosa

Jaliwaki: Bush Potato Brachystelma glabriflorum

Arlaminga: Barramundi Lates calcarifer

Yirrikipayi: Saltwater Crocodile Crocodylus porosus

Yankumwani: Green Plum Buchanania obovata

Pinyama: Pink Beach Apple Syzygium suborbiculare

Jimijinga: Milky Plum Persoonia falcata

Tiwi ecological knowledge: Bernard Tipiloura, John Wilson, Lynette Johnson, Jacinta Tipungwuti, Eunice Orsto, and Judy Puruntatameri. Puruntatameri, J. et al (2001) Tiwi Plants and Animals: Aboriginal flora and fauna knowledge from

Bathurst and Melville Islands, northern Australia. Parks and Wildlife Commission of the NT and Tiwi Land Council, Darwin.

Images: Peter Eve, Jeremy Cresswell, Keith McGuinness, Barbara McKaige, Henry Cook, Russell Cumming, Craig Nieminski, Nic Smith, Emma Ligtermoet, Nic Gambold, Liz Thompson, Jacinda Brown, Glenn Wightman, Ian Morris, David Curl, Emma Woodward,

Greg Miles, Lochman Transparencies, Auscape, Lorraine Williams and Gary Bell/OceanwideImages.com

Compilation and Production: Barbara McKaige CSIRO (2014) Design and Layout: First Class in Graphic Design.

© Copyright is owned by the Tiwi Land Council and CSIRO. This publication cannot be reproduced without consent. CSIRO Darwin: phone 08 8944 8400, Tiwi Land Council: phone 08 8970 9373

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