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Ticking House Crows

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Subject: Ticking House Crows
From: Brian Fleming <>
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 22:07:45 +1100
Laurie & Leanne Knight wrote:
> 
> For all of those who have sought out the House Crow in Victoria, a
> question of ticking ethics.
> 
> Is there a distinction between ticking a vagrant that has landed in
> Australia through an accident of navigation or been blown off course
> [but has basically got to Oz under its own steam] and ticking a bird
> that has hitched a lift on a cargo / passenger ship?
> 
> Is ticking the house crow any different from ticking a ptarmigan that
> has obviously escaped from an aviary?
> 
> LK
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Remember the Cape Gannet which stayed for some years on the Wedge Light
in Port Phillip Bay, apparently happily married to a local bird and
presumably producing hybrid young?
I've always assumed it may well have been a ship-assisted immigrant!
(Note that sailors are inclined to make pets of birds which land on
ships).
Anthea Fleming in Melbourne
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