Indeed, some people will tick anything.
Now, I believe the following news item refers to a genuine tick ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/animals/newsid_2375000/2375897.stm
Kids find rare bird on Blackpool seafront
Updated 30 October 2002, 12.45
One of the world's rarest birds has been spotted by stunned holidaymakers in
Blackpool.
The Northern Bald Ibis popped into the Pleasure Beach on Sunday and was spotted
by a group of kids.
Eventually it was taken to the Three Owls Bird Sanctuary in Rochdale where staff
have had to make special arrangements for the lonely bird.
They've set up loads of mirrors around the bird's cage so it thinks there are
loads of its pals and family there to play with.
Where did it come from?
Now the hunt is on to find out where it came from because none of the nearby
zoos have got a missing ibis.
It's reckoned there are only around 220 of the birds in the world at the moment,
mainly in three protected colonies in Morocco.
Craig Doolan wrote:
>
> The idea that they should not be removed straight away for the benefit of
> birdwatchers seems a somewhat ridiculous, if not unfamiliar, response. It
> brings back memories of the House Crow in Phillip Island a few years ago.
> Without wanting to go into the dubiousness of the 'tick' (the bird is, if
> not an escapee, a vagrant from an area where it is a feral pest), I would
> take the purist attitude that it does not belong here and as it could easily
> be removed, so it should be done.
>
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