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Re Sandra Henderson's mention of Phoebe Snetsinger, this is sad , but
probably interesting to birdwatchers who knew of this amazing lady.
While on a birding trip in Madagascar in 1999, the van Phoebe
Snetsinger was travelling in overturned, killing her instantly. Her final
life-bird, after almost two decades as a terminal cancer patient, was the
Red-shouldered Vanga, a species which had only been described as new to science
in 1997.
Snetsinger's memoir, Birding on Borrowed Time, was published
posthumously in 2003 by the American Birding Association.
John Layton
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