Sorry, should have gone on to add
I would list the spp from CI on my oriental list, for any new species
for the islands I observed I would make a BARC submission (as the
responsible body in the political jursidiction), but any intereting
observations I made I would try to publish in a journal dealing with
oriental birds.
John Leonard
On 22/05/2008, Dave Torr <> wrote:
> 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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