I would have thought the falsification of a digital image of rare birds for
the purpose of claiming a certain area is part of their range is unlikely to
occur, simply because with most pictures the birds could be anywhere anyway.
eg Even if we had a picture of a pair of Coxen's Fig-Parrots the bush
they're sitting in needn't be where the person who took it claimed. And
unless the photographer managed to include an identifiable landmark in the
background it's difficult to see how you could prove the location from any
picture, digital or not. It's easy to splice two separate pictues of people
together, more difficult to paste birds into a foreground in front of a
distinctive hill or whatever.
John L
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John Leonard (Dr)
http://www.webone.com.au/~jleonard
PO Box 243, Woden, ACT 2606, Australia
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