John is absolutely right, it's up to you, and as the person who still holds
the stock of 600 Club badges, I don't ask you to prove you've seen 600
species, I believe you. I assume you have your own principles and follow
them honourably. If you tell me you've seen 6oo species I send you a badge.
(I secretly know that if you are telling a barefaced lie and you didn't see
some of them at all, your badge will go rusty, or your hat will blow into
the sea with your badge on it...)
However for anyone who hasn't read all this many times before, birders can
enter their totals on Tony Palliser's web page. He says:
Home
Birders Totals
Following Christidis & Boles 2008 Taxonomy
A fun page devoted to those that have seen 600 or more bird species
within Australia and its Territories including: Christmas, Heard, Lord Howe,
Macquarie and Norfolk Islands but not Antarctica. (For more information see
Christidis & Boles 2008).
If you wish your total to be added simply email your tally to
To be fair and consistent for the purposes of
maintaining this list a few basic rules shall apply:
1.All species counted should be seen alive and in the wild
2.Geography includes Mainland Australia, its Territories
or anywhere within the 200 NM limit (excluding Antarctica).
3.Taxonomy should follow Christidis & Boles 2008 .
4.Submissions should be honest, accurate and dated.
A very helpful person has offered to take the badges over from me, but they
are too heavy to post so the changeover will have to wait until I am going
to Victoria and can carry them.
Margaret Cameron
2 Cintra Street
Eastern Heights, Qld
Australia 4305
07 3282 9151
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