Portable DNA scanner aims to identify every birdspecies

[Carl Clifford <>]

Graham,

At least we won't have packs if unemployed taxonomists roaming the  
streets committing mindless acts of splitting and lumping. A thousand  
new species will keep them employed for many years
Cheers,

Carl Clifford


On 24/11/2008, at 1:44 PM, Graham Turner wrote:

Even if the machine is made on time, has the capability as stated  
(wished for), when will the consensus be achieved on which species are  
which (or not) and what name to call them?
" By 2011 the team declare they will have recorded every bird species  
in the world in their  database and in doing so will discover a  
further 1000 bird species previously unrecognized to science as a  
result of splitting from known species."

Cheers
Graham Turner