Re: birding-aus life

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Subject:	Re: birding-aus life
From:	Andrew Taylor <>
Date:	Tue, 19 Oct 1999 13:35:23 +1000 (EST)

On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Richard Johnson wrote:
> 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.

A future lister's dilemma may be a neo-Paradise Parrot population -
the descendants of biotech marriage of DNA-sequences scavenged from
Paradise Parrot skins and a Red-rumped Parrot.

No doubt the ABA rules will specify a precision of recovery of the
original genome for a species to be listable again.

Andrew taylor

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