Hmm! I guess that answers my recent pondering as to whether Sean has ever got
onto Grey Falcons!!
John Tongue
Ulverstone, Tas.
On 20/01/2012, at 9:26 AM, wrote:
> I don't see what the big fuss is over this story. Exactly this sort of thing
> has been going on for years in Australia where somebody has been spray
> painting Brown Falcons grey in the Outback to con gullible birders that there
> is an actual species out there called Grey Falcon!
>
> I flagged all this in my book "Anoraks to Zitting Cisticola" where I
> documented how my extensive research into Grey Falcons (more than a dozen
> unsuccessful stake outs in supposedly "known" locations) proved conclusively
> that there is no such bird and anyone who has claimed to have seen this
> mythical creature is either part of the conspiracy (I suspect perpetuated by
> the Outback Tourism Board to lure in gullible, cash-laden twitchers) or they
> have been duped by the dodgy spray paint job.
>
> I better sign off now, before "they" trace the computer I am typing this from
> and send in "their" goons to silence me.
>
> Sean "The Truth is Out There" Dooley
>
> On 19/01/2012 6:09 PM Philip Veerman wrote:
>
> Oh what a stupid story. Or more to the point a story about a stupid person.
> Why would someone bother doing something so dopey and would anyone really
> think that there was a new bird in existence?
>
> Philip
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Dave Torr
> Sent: Thursday, 19 January 2012 4:50 PM
> To: birding-aus
> Subject: [Birding-Aus] New NZ Raptor a hoax!
>
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/world/new-bird-species-a-spray-paint-prank-20120119
> -1q7wt.html
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