It might be interesting to note that in North America, the American Birding
Association, (ABA) defines the ABA North America checklist area as the
continental USA and Canada, it does not include Hawaii, which, of course, is
one of the 50 states.
Gary
--- On Wed, 9/16/09, Ian May <> wrote:
From: Ian May <>
Subject: RFI : Twitcher questions re NEW SPECIES FOR AUSTRALIA?
To: "Birding Aus" <>
Received: Wednesday, September 16, 2009, 5:37 PM
<>
Hi all
While counting up my Australian bird list recently some questions were raised
by a non birding friend re geographical limits that apply to record species on
the Australian national list. I showed some recent posts about Christmas
Island birds titled "New Species for Australia" indicating that this is what we
do and generally the list is developed around political boundaries relating to
the nation and its territories.
However I was unable to give easy answers to the questions.
For example, if the reason is political boundaries, why are not all New Guinea
birds recorded on the Ausie historical list? Are birds recorded from French
Polynesia in the Pacific or Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean considered part
of the French national bird list? Are birds recorded from Diego Garcia in the
Indian Ocean part of the UK bird list? Outside of Australia do others
follow the same rules? If so is there any part of the world that would not
qualify for the US list? The exercise has left me wondering about the
rationale of recording national bird lists.
During the exercise some interesting geographic facts about Australia and its
territories were indicated.
The closest Australian mainland location to Christmas Island (South Point) is
North West Cape (Jabiru Point), distance 830 Nm. (1538 km.) However the
distance from Christmas Island to Java, Indonesia is only185 Nm. Cocos Island
to Australia (Jabiru Point) is 1137 Nm (approx. 2100 km)..
Hoping we can have a friendly discussion about this subject.
Regards
Ian May
PO Box 110
St Helens Tasmania
0428 337956
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