Oh sacriledge Philip, you'll never get to the birders' heaven, not with
Bill at the gate anyway.
T.
At 02:03 18/10/99 +0000, you wrote:
>On dead birds,
>
>I am willing to accept that line that if finding a dead bird enables
>it to get on a national list, then it should be able to go on yours.
>Anyone who beach patrols for seabirds is likely to take this view
>also, as for many of us it's the only way we will end up seeing many
>of them (brilliant pelagics notwithstanding). The ethical problems
>then become: do you have to be the one to actually find the bird on a
>beach patrol?; is being there when the corpses are identified enough?
>
>As ever, it comes down to personal satisfaction. I would willing tick
>a bird that I found dead, and fairly willingly tick one found by
>someone in the team I was patrolling with. I would tick (in brackets)
>one that someone else found that I only saw later, and to take things
>to the extreme, would not tick museum specimens!
>
>By the same token, I only provisionally tick birds that have been
>identified by call in my presence, unless they are so distinctive that
>even I, with my great inability to remember calls, have a chance of
>making the ID independently another time.
>
>There are those who would never tick a corpse, and I guess they are
>more often than not from places where you seldom need to.
>
>Phil Battley,
>Australian School of Environmental Studies,
>Griffith University,
>Nathan,
>Queensland 4111,
>Australia.
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