There is no such thing as a trash bird!
Mal :-)
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From: Tom and Dixie <>
To: Birding-Aus <>
Date: Saturday, 11 March 2000 10:58
Subject: You know you're a birder, if ...........
>G'day all: You know you're a birder if:
>
> 1. You travel to a foreign country and the only words you learn to speak
>are bird names.
>
> 2. Your idea of a great vacation is to travel to Alice Springs to spend a
>day at the sewage ponds.
>
> 3. You have ten large bird pictures on the wall at work and 1 small photo
>of your spouse in the desk drawer.
>
> 4. Your vacation of a lifetime is spent at a place called North Keeling
>Island.
>
> 5. You spend your entire wedding anniversary scoping the tidal flats in
>Cairns.
>
> 6. You spend every daylight hour on your Caribbean cruise looking for
>pelagic birds.
>
> 7. When shopping for new clothes you check that the pockets a large enough
>to hold a field guide.
>
> 8. After finding a scond Regent Honeyeater you refer to it as a trash
bird.
>
> 9. The Rare Bird Hot Line is #1 on your speed dialer.
>
> 10. All the magazine subscriptions you receive have the word "bird" on
them.
>
> 11. Only a fellow birder can understand your slang and codes.
>
> 12. You know the difference between a pelagic and a passerine.
>
> 13. Your New Years resolution was to start a new millenium list.
>
> 14. When you talk about the World Series you're not talking sports.
>
> 15. You own more optical gear than a university astronomy department.
>
> 16. You know how to pronounce Diomedea chlororhynchos and you know what it
> means.
>
> 17. Your idea of an exotic dancer is a Sarus Crane.
>
> 18. When someone says that there is more to life than birding you question
>their sanity.
>
> 19. You only win Final Jeopardy when the category is "birds".
>
> 20. These jokes make you smile.
>
> The above was shamelessly plagiarized and modified from a BirdChat USA
>posting
> by: Tom Nelson Corvallis, Oregon
>
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