G'day Michael,
I am not sure but I think you might be referring to me or Mike. I'm not
actually on the BARC committee, a submission hasn't been written and the
discussion on this bird remains active until such time, although it has
definitely focused in on Slaty-back based on the last three contributions
from overseas experts I have read. If you have any thoughts on the bird we
would be interested to hear them, now is the time. By the way this bird was
going to result in an increase in the personal score of anyone who saw it
regardless of what the final decision regarding its ID was, it was always
going to be a new species for the Australian list.
Cheers Jeff
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Sent: Saturday, 23 February 2008 7:52 PM
To: Nikolas Haass; Mike Carter; Tony Russell; BIRDING-AUS
Subject: Cooktown Slaty-backed Gull happily post
sittingtoday
Hi all
While I've occasionally gasped in astonishment at the quality of the
phenotypical analysis I am beginning to wonder if this isn't the sort of
discussion where I, as a local Councillor, would have to duck out in case I
came to a Committee (let's call it BARK) with either a "conflict of
interest" - like a personal interest in the outcome increasing my score, or
a concern about "apprehended bias" - a belief that I have such set views
that I would not be open to what I hear in debate before casting my vote.
But I note BARC has 8 men on it - presumably this all male collection would
be replaced by proxies should any one of the 8 be in the difficulties
outlined above.
Michael Norris
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