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Night Parrot - tickers and listers

To: Brian Fleming <>
Subject: Night Parrot - tickers and listers
From: Denise Goodfellow <>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:30:37 +0930
Dear Anthea

I am all the way with you on this one.   


Denise Goodfellow




On 20 Feb 2015, at 2:23 pm, brian fleming <> wrote:

> I am personally always delighted to see a new bird.
> I am prepared to get in the car and drive a moderate distance to go and see 
> one.  I have been known to pay money for people to show me birds in Cape York 
> and the Kimberley.
> But I am extremely concerned - no, appalled,  to hear of  some person 
> seriously suggesting that spinifex should be fired in order to give him a 
> chance of "ticking" a Night Parrot, or anything else.  Or trespassing on 
> indigenous people's land to see a Princess Parrot, as happened a few years 
> ago.
> My personal opinion is that far too much effort is spent on ticking species 
> and building life-lists.  If the same effort was put into studying the 
> life-histories of even common birds, we would know very much more than we do.
> Certainly atlassing has greatly built up our knowledge of bird distribution 
> and migration, and Twitchathons etc. have provided a great deal of fun for 
> those energetic enough to do it - so has digital photography. But first and 
> foremost, please let us consider the birds.
> 
> Anthea Fleming
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