David,
Everytime when I go out "birding" I try to identify mammals, reptiles,
amphibians, butterflies, dragonflies and spiders. Try that as well and count
the positively identified species in each group. You'll find out that the birds
are by far the largest group in your count. Birds are the easiest to find AND
to identify (with regular tools) group of animals. That's why they are used as
bioindicators rather than other similarly sensitive groups. And that's also why
listers love them: it's more fun to come home with 100+ species "in the bag" as
opposed to 5, or 10 or 15...
;-)
Nikolas
P.S. the recent pelagic out of Sydney (which I unfortunately missed) had
White-tailed Tropicbirds - really cool. But the best "bird" was in my opinion
the albino False Killer Whale in a pod of 10-11 "normal" ones!
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Nikolas Haass
Sydney, NSW
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From: david taylor <>
To: birding-aus birding-aus <>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 8:59:50 PM
Subject: birdwatchers - spiderwatchers?
As we all know bird watching is an international pass time with many
devotees, clubs, twitchers, activities, guides, tours, etc etc etc
With all the talk of spiders it prompted the thought why other
creatures such as spiders or insects, lizards or even mammals doesnt
attract the same level of participation as birds and birding seems to.
Are there full scale spider listers or mammal twitchers or the
lizard watchers club?
Not suggesting that there are not those out there interested or some
organisations involved in these other creatures, but as far I see not
at the same levels of participation and passion that birds and
birding has? .... I wonder why?
Others may have a thought or disagree with me on this as a topic for
discussion.
cheers
David Taylor
brisbane
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