Soft-plumaged petrels and kittens

[Syd Curtis <>]

 Anthea Fleming wrote:

> 
> the whole bird-counting problem is very similar to the Kitten problem,
> memorably summed up thus by a novelist:
> "There seemed to be  a great many kittens about, or possibly the same
> kitten a great many times" (Martin Woodhouse, "Mama Doll)"
> 

At a conference of the international Union of Forestry Research
Organisations in Munich in the '60s, I learnt that the German version of
"lies, damn lies, and statistics", is something like "lies, perjury, and
animal counting".

No doubt 'animal' included 'birds'.

Syd 

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