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Portable DNA scanner aims to identify everybirdspecies

To: "'Baus'" <>
Subject: Portable DNA scanner aims to identify everybirdspecies
From: "Bill Stent" <>
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 05:42:10 +0100
Why is it going to take them over a year to twitch every species in the
world?

They clearly need to recruit Dools to help them with the Night Parrot...

Bill


-----Original Message-----
From: 
 On Behalf Of Graham Turner
Sent: Monday, 24 November 2008 3:44 AM
To: Baus
Subject: Portable DNA scanner aims to identify
everybirdspecies 

Even if the machine is made on time, has the capability as stated (wished 
for), when will the consensus be achieved on which species are which (or 
not) and what name to call them?

" By 2011 the team declare they will have recorded every bird species in the

world in their  database and in doing so will discover a further 1000 bird 
species previously unrecognized to science as a result of splitting from 
known species."


Cheers
Graham Turner




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