Nice concept, but possibly not in this case.
An ultra-hard core twitcher will travel for a day (or two) each way
for a twitch and may well turn around after five minutes of observation.
Typically driving twitches involve a greater proportion of travel time
than flying twitches. Take the case of the GHL at Burren Junction.
It was pretty much a drive only option (one or two took a light
airport to Narrabri?) with many driving 6-12 hours each way with an
overnight stop somewhere. Many of those twitchers would have only
spent an hour or two on the bird.
Perhaps the most ridiculous twitch would be someone flying to a remote
airstrip (eg Cocos Island) to try and see a bird at the site while the
plane was refuelling ...
Regards, Laurie.
On 26/03/2009, at 2:21 PM, Peter Marsh wrote:
Dear Birders,
I took Biggles from Darwin out to see the probable AGP at Boat
Harbour today. I picked him up from a flight in from Darwin at 6:30
am, took him to Kurnell, walked in and saw the bird (and all the
other birds on the rock platform) very well, walked out and dropped
him off at the airport at 10:00 am for his 11:00 am flight back to
Darwin.
Is this a record for the travel time divided by the length of time
at destination for a twitch? Very glad the tides, the weather and
the birds all co-operated to make it a good day for Biggles.
Regards
Peter
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