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Ticking Standards - was House Crow at Dee Why

To: "Carl Clifford" <>
Subject: Ticking Standards - was House Crow at Dee Why
From: "Dave Torr" <>
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 15:45:44 +1000
Since the top "listers" put their totals on
http://users.bigpond.net.au/palliser/pelagic/totals.html I guess the rules
that are listed there apply if you want to go on that list - and they just
require it to be alive and in the wild!

2008/7/9 Carl Clifford <>:

> Chris, et al,
>
> I didn't know there were any rules, or at least since the repeal of the
> Observation Recording Standards, Ornithologists  Act of 1902 was repealed in
> the early 1960s. Now one is allowed to record sightings in any way you feel
> and and record, or not record, whatever you feel like. Some saw this
> Legislative change as a liberation from draconian regulations, while others
> have simply regarded it as simple drop in standards; the passing of a golden
> age of certainty.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Carl Clifford
>
> On 09/07/2008, at 3:24 PM, Chris Sanderson wrote:
>
> Hi Keith and others,
>
> I have wondered about that.  I've seen free-flying Peach-faced Lovebirds
> that are probably breeding.  Not that I would tick them what makes them
> different from this House Crow?  Isn't there an unofficial rule about
> having
> to be an established population or got here under its own steam in the case
> of vagrants?
>
> Regards,
> Chris
>
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Keith Weekes <>
> wrote:
>
>  What rules are everyone playing by for their lists? There's no way I'm
>> ticking this bird, it is ship assisted plain and simple. I'd sooner go to
>> Featherdale Wildlife Park and tick birds in cages.
>>
>> KW
>>
>> 2008/7/9 Carl Billingham <>:
>>
>>  Hi Tania,
>>> I flew down from Brisbane to Sydney on the weekend to pick up a few ticks
>>> including Regent Honeyeaters (about a dozen) in Capertee Valley, my bogey
>>> bird the Red-whiskered Bulbul (tried on three previous trips but finally
>>> successful) and ...the House Crow which is quite a nice looking bird with
>>> its silky grey mantle.
>>> Carl Corden was able to take me straight to the spot at Dee Why and
>>>
>> pointed
>>
>>> out the bird in the trees between the children's fenced playground and
>>>
>> the
>>
>>> street - exactly where he had seen it back in March!
>>> ...even got the photos as proof of having 'been there, done that'
>>>
>> Laurie;-)
>>
>>> Spent the afternoon doing some cliff top seabird watching as well.
>>> Cheers,
>>> Carl Billingham
>>> Taringa, Brisbane
>>>
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