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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