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Re: introduced bird(er)s

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Subject: Re: introduced bird(er)s
From: Tony Russell <>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 11:10:57 +1030
I agree with David Torr's comments below, but I still reckon the locals are
in the pub or at the footy.



At 08:22 AM 18/03/98 +1000, you wrote:
>     Since I posted the first mail that used the dreaded word "Pom", can I 
>     put a personal perspective - growing up in England I always had some 
>     interest in birds, but was never a "birder". When I first came to 
>     Australia I was amazed at the birdlife - all these parrots flying 
>     around my house in outer Melbourne. Previously I had thought of 
>     parrots as an exotic bird of tropical jungles, yet here they were in 
>     far from tropical Melbourne. I guess this stimulated my interest and 
>     made me start birding.
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>     Maybe if you grow up with this fantastic bird life you get used to it 
>     and are less likely to be a keen birder than someone coming in from 
>     outside who sees it as all new???
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>Subject: introduced bird(er)s
>Author:  "Jo Wieneke" <> at ~pau-smtp
>Date:    17/3/98 20:13
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>Without all the imports, Poms, Kiwis, Yanks, Rhodesian b.....ds etc, where 
>would Australian birding be today?  In any gathering of birders, native born 
>ones often seem to be in the minority. This also seems to be the case with 
>birding-aus subscribers.  Why are they such a rare sighting?
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>Cheers
>Jo Wieneke
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Tony Russell
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