Monotremes and Ratites

[Kevin and Lizzie <>]

Michael

A a slightly younger pom, I suspect my secondary source for the report being
shown on Panorama is better than your memory:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/panorama/hi/front_page/newsid_7753000/7753038.stm. Of
course, Alan Whicker might well have recycled the material

Kevin

On 3 April 2011 23:00, michael norris <> wrote:

> Thanks Kevin, but as a pre-Baby-Boomer Pom I share the reservations of
> others on the WWW about the attribution of the Spaghetti Tree to Panorama,
> even though BBC websites say that is where it appeared in 1957).
>
> My clear memory is of seeing it on a report by Alan Whicker on the Beeb's
> 'Tonight'.
>
> And yes!  This thread has to do with birding - it's about gullibility [I
> wonder what that word has to do with gulls?].
>
> As a classic case of gullibility, see the case of the 'Hastings Rarities'.
> Of course nothing like that could happen these days - could it?
>
> Michael Norris
>