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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