You can't tick dead birds Chris, they have to be alive and free.
-----Original Message-----
From:
On Behalf Of Chris Sanderson
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 3:32 PM
To: Bill Stent
Cc: Baus
Subject: Portable DNA scanner aims to
identifyeverybirdspecies
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
>
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