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

To: John Leonard <>
Subject: re: The decline of ornithological publications (was: rant against twitching)
From: peter crow <>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 12:12:43 +1000
I agree whole heatedly with both John and Laurie

Peter

On 22/05/2008, at 11:51 AM, John Leonard wrote:

I wonder if Birding-aus is itself to blame?

Since 1995 (correct that date if necessary) Australian birders who
observe previously unnoticed behaviour have been able to fire away an
e-mail to birding-aus saying: "Yesterday I saw a such and such doing
this and that, has anyone observed this before?"

This may have then allowed people to forget about the observation and
not follow it up and write it up more fully as they used to.

John Leonard

ps I'm not recommending the immediate suspension of birding-aus :-)


On 22/05/2008, Lawrie Conole <> wrote:
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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