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re: The decline of ornithological publications (was: rant against twitch

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Subject: re: The decline of ornithological publications (was: rant against twitching)
From: "Lawrie Conole" <>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 11:39:10 +1000
In my view it's not BOCA's fault, or BA's fault - not even John Howard's
fault!  It's *our *fault - the community of birders.  Those who think
publishing naturalist notes and observations is important should be
encouraging that by example and other role modelling wherever possible - and
I don't think I've done enough, or that my peers have.

The skewed representation of twitching over natural history
research/observations in the average Australian birder's timetable is simply
a microcosm of the wider community's obssession with individualistic and
'short attention span' amusements.  Birding is not unique in that regard, so
the current trend shouldn't come as any great surprise.

How to fix the problem?  Get out there and do it rather than just talk on
here about how dire things are.

I'm off ... have a short paper to write!! :-)

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Lawrie Conole
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AUSTRALIA
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