Margaret Cameron wrote:
>
> The famous John McKean once told me with his face perfectly straight that
> he was keeping a list of rare birds eaten eg Freckled Duck jaffles, and of
> some rare wader in Darwin "I made a little delicacy for Hilary"
>
> but I didn't believe him! And please don't copy the idea!
>
> Margaret
>
> >
> >But surely with all those sophisticated programmes people now have, one can
> >itemise one's sightings between living, heard living, dead - whether
> >drowned/squashed/half eaten/shot or whatever, shown by the expert, and all
> >those other definitions of a "sighting". Endless variation for people with
> >nothing better to do than manipulate their lists!
> >
> >Joking of course.......
I once asked one of South Africas leading birders if he had seen all 8
of the Flufftails (genus Sarothura, a particularly difficult group of
African rails). Seen them all he said, I've eaten the all! Apparently
when collecting specimens for museums he would always eat a portion and
now had a huge list of 'eaten' birds.
Ian Lewis, Dorset UK
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