I am interested in this topic. as I would like to see all of the birds that
can be seen from land in Australia, defining Australia as the states and
northern territory. Does anyone have such a list? I realise that one of
the difficulties is that you can see many pelagics from land under certain
conditions, but I would include those in the list.
Gary
2009/9/17 Chris Healey <>
> What constitutes the 'Australian bird list' depends largely on what is
> meant
> by 'Australia', a label with different meanings in different contexts. The
> Australian birdlist might look very different if the original Australian
> colonies had become separate nations instead of a federation - it would
> have
> inevitably been defined biogeographically rather than politically. I guess
> we can make up whatever rules we like to generate interesting or
> challenging
> birdlists, but to my mind, the only lists that make biological sense are
> those defined on a biogeographic basis. In those terms, the 'Australian'
> list would cover the continental landmass and offshore islands connected to
> the continental shelf - hence Tassie etc. Whether that would include such
> outliers as Norfolk Is and Ashmore Reef might be a matter for
> biogeographers
> to argue over, but it would exclude the pelagics that don't come ashore to
> breed in 'Australia'. An 'Australian' birdlist at least has the potential
> to be a more meaningful 'natural' category than, say, an 'Indonesian'
> birdlist, where the national boundaries enclose famously divergent
> biogeographic regions, or a 'Lithuanian' list which covers only a fraction
> of a biogeographic region. By and large, political boundaries make little
> biological sense (and seldom much socio-cultural sense either).
>
>
>
> Chris Healey
>
> Clifton Creek, East Gippsland
>
>
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