On Saturday, June 10, 2006, at 04:25 PM, Keith Stockwell wrote:
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Handout notes we were given listed Yellow Chat but digital pictures
one of
the other birders took of the Chat showed conclusively, when the photos
were enlarged on a laptop computer, that it was an Orange Chat even
though,
from a distance, those who saw it took it to be a Yellow Chat. Just as
well, as I would have been annoyed being so close yet missing out on a
Yellow Chat.
Some friends from near Bendigo recently paid good money to go on a
cruise
somewhere in the Northern Territory because the tour operator
advertised
that Yellow Chats were always observed on the cruise. Strange, my
friends
thought, because the habitat hardly seemed appropriate. When, during
the
cruise, the operator pointed out Yellow Chats, the birds were, in fact,
Lemon-bellied Flycatchers!
The moral of the story is to beware of sales and marketing. Tour
operators have a motive to "talk up" offerings/prospects. They may
also have a marginal grip on what they observe.
Regards, Laurie
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