Re: birding-aus life

[(Richard Johnson)]

Lorne

Shame on you for:
1. being inconsistent, and 2. being discriminatory, in failing to give equal access on your life life list to dead birds on the basis of state of decomposition. This must be some sort of -ism. I'd suggest that you are in fact a NECROPSIST, exhibiting prejudice against other than fresh corpses. If you're gonna count one carcass, count 'em all!
This does raise an intriguing point, though. Just how long dead can a corpse be and still be an acceptable record? If you see an Archaeopteryx fossil, does that go on the list? Perhaps anything short of mineralisation is OK. On the other hand, there's probably a lot of wisdom in only listing live and free birds!

Richard

lorne wrote:

The only Silver-crowned Friarbird I've seen was a dead one by the
highway south of Darwin, near Howard Springs. I ticked it.

I did not tick a squashed, ant-ridden, half-rotten Southern Scrub-robin
at Round Hill, NSW, back circa 1991, because it was practically beyond
identification!!! I was going to go to dental records, but that wouldn't
have helped!!

Anyway, I'm off to Taronga Zoo and the Australian Museum to tick some
more lifers!!!!! Ha ha ha.

Peace and life,

Lorne.
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