Dr Tonia Cochran wrote:
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> Hi folks,
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> I have just received the following request for info on the Sharp-tailed
> sandpiper. Can anyone help? Thank-you. All the best, Tonia.
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> >Date: 05/21 1:43 AM
> >Received: 05/21 7:25 AM
> >From: Jan Buckland,
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> >Email form returned from the Birdwatcher Home Page:
> >Information sent: = URGENT help required for school Project Can you
> >PLEASE send details about the sharp tailed sandpiper, its migratory
> >habits, and reasons why it may not have been seen in certain parts of
> >Australia since May 1997.
> >We will be very very grateful thankyou.
> >5/6B Eaglehawk North Primary School
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> Dr Tonia Cochran
> Inala Nature tours/accommodation
> Cloudy Bay Road
> Bruny Island, Tasmania 7150
> Tel/Fax: 03 62931217 mobile: 0416 124 934 (message bank)
> Email:
Tony,
The enquiry relates to a school environmental project quiz, many
schools are involved. It is a type of "who dunnit" but the victims are
animals or birds, "murdered" by environemntal catastropes or villians,
such as oil spills, destruction of wetlands, a shooter, careless
fishermen etc. My suggestion on how to handle such enquiries is to send
the enquirer off to a library or the Internet, otherwise you end up
doing the job for them and they get the credit, and no experience in
following up references.
Alan Morris
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