Portable DNA scanner aims to identify everybirdspecies

["Chris Sanderson" <>]

Why do they need a Night Parrot?  They don't need a living bird, they can
just go to a museum...

Regards,
Chris

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Bill Stent <> wrote:

> 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: Re: [Birding-Aus] 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
>