Thanks, that's means the Little Bittern I saw last year in the United Arab
Emirates was a 'lifer'! ;)
Regards
Frank
-----Original message-----
From: "Geoffrey Dabb"
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2008 09:10:44 +1100
To:
Subject: (Australian) Little Bittern
> With respect to my below comment on the 'widespread species', Steve Holliday
> and John Leonard have quickly pointed out that this is now our own
> Australian Little Bittern according to the new Christidis & Boles. Thanks
> also to David Nowell for drawing attention to the value of obtaining images
> of subspecies (as we thought this was!).
>
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> The Acrocephalus might need to sail again.
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> jalb_comp.jpg
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>
> From: Geoffrey Dabb
> Sent: Saturday, 9 February 2008 5:45 PM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [canberrabirds] Little Bittern
>
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> As the water-borne strategy had demonstrated its effectiveness, I was
> prompted to re-launch after a very long interval the 'Acrocephalus', an
> ancient cut-off Canadian ....
>
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>
> I shall probably not make the effort to get video as the IBC website is
> well-served with footage from Europe of this widespread species.
>
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