There's a terrific American birder by the name of Rich Stallcup who
lives in Marin Co. north of the San Francisco area of the US.
Many years ago ( nearly 30!) he gave me a piece of advice that cannot
be faltered:
"Believe the bird NOT the book"!
Thanks Rich, it never fails once you appreciate this.
cheers
Alan
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On 01 May 2006, at 18:00, Bob Forsyth wrote:
G'day all,
How I wish there was a web page that listed the errors found in Hanzab !
Back in 2002 one correspondent to Birding-aus wrote >
"Yesterday I went on quite a journey of discovery, because I made the
mistake
of assuming that everything you read in HANZAB is like The Word Of
God. I
did a lot of sifting through my mental archive, and all the field
guides,
until I realised the error was in HANZAB itself, and I was not going
crazy."
A number of presumed errors have been posted on these pages, but
unfortunately, to my knowledge none have been collected together.
A year or two ago I wrote to the Hanzab team requesting they host a
web page where errors & omissions could be listed.
The idea was rejected at that time, owing to lack of resources.
Now that Hanzab 7 is in the post, I hope this issue can now be re-
addressed.
Regards from
Bob Forsyth
Mount Isa, NW Qld.
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