You are of course correct - but legally it is part of Aus and since the
"major bird groups" and AFO all talk about "Australia" and not just "those
parts of Australia that are not in the Oriental region" it is perfectly
reasonable that they make it into AFO. After all - if we ignore the birds in
our territory how can we expect others to study them!
2008/5/22 John Leonard <>:
> On 22/05/2008, Frank O'Connor <> wrote:
>
> ...BTW. CI is a part of Australia, and the birds of CI deserve study
> equally
> as much as real Australian birds.
>
> Beg to differ about the first part of this statement.
> Biogeographically Christmans Island is obviously part of the Oriental
> Region, if went there and saw new spp I would count them on my
> oriental list, not my australasian list.
>
>
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