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Night Parrot captured and videoed

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Subject: Night Parrot captured and videoed
From: Geoff Price <>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 03:25:26 +0000
100% agree Kev.


On 12/08/2015 11:19 AM, Kev Lobotomi wrote:
> Hi Denise
> It's unfortunate that you persist with this continued bashing of bird 
> watchers (who are to the most part to a lesser & greater degree listers). We 
> do a lot more good than bad. There are bad eggs that spoil it for everyone 
> else. But the conservation push would be no where near as great if birders 
> weren't involved. Many more birds & other animals would have become extinct. 
> It's only through interest & education that we have things like national 
> parks & reserves & the protection of birds. Bird watchers are amongst the 
> most intelligent people I have met & they for the most part love the science 
> of the whole thing also & are quite happy to partake in surveys & give any 
> knowledge they have so that birds can be protected. There are photographers 
> who do the wrong thing, & sometimes twitchers too, but these incidences are 
> small compared to amount of good we do. I would contend with the advent of 
> digital photography it has now reduced the need for collecting birds, because 
> the quality of the photographs are so good that you can see just about 
> everything you need to see externally on a bird. Digital photography is an 
> incredible tool that we can use for good, because the more we know about the 
> bird, the more we can do to help protect it.
>
>



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