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Cocos & Christmas Island Rarities

To: guillaume <>
Subject: Cocos & Christmas Island Rarities
From: Carl Clifford <>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 16:14:44 +1100
Hi Guillaume,

True, it would not make sense to include the species from the Overseas Departments. But, you must admit it would be a marvellous list to get, all the species of all the Departments of France, Metropolitain and Overseas. I would volunteer to undertake such a quest, all I need is a sponsor. It would certainly improve my French list, which is trying hard to reach 50.

Cheers,

Carl Clifford

On 09/01/2011, at 1:24 PM, guillaume wrote:

Hi all,

French birders only consider the western palearctic bioregion (metropolitan territory). For other French territories, lists are different otherwise we would cover most of the world (north and south Pacific, Indian ocean, Antarctica, etc...) and in terms of biogeographical region this would not really make sense.

French bird list is available here:
http://www2.mnhn.fr/crbpo/IMG/pdf/LOF_juillet_2007.pdf
Or here:
http://www2.mnhn.fr/crbpo/IMG/xls/LOF_MAJ_2010.xls

Cheers,

Guillaume


On 9/01/11 10:07 AM, Carl Clifford wrote:
French birders could add birds seen in Guadeloupe, Martinique French Guyana (Guyane) and Reunion to their French lists, as the above are Departments (the equivalent to our states) of France. I wonder if they do? The bio-geographic regions are a bit un-French though

Cheers,

Carl Clifford


On 09/01/2011, at 12:56 PM, david taylor wrote:



And as Tom points out - do the French birders add New Caledonia birds because its a territory of theirs?



But each to his own and great birding all.

cheers

David Taylor



On 09/01/2011, at 10:32 AM, Carl Clifford wrote:

Tom,

I heartily agree. You could almost say that birding on Christmas and Cocos was SE Asian birding for xenophobes, except for the fact that the population of Cocos is mainly Malay and the population of Christmas is mainly Middle Eastern, albeit they are banged-up in a concentration camp

Cheers,

Carl Clifford


On 09/01/2011, at 7:38 AM, Tom Tarrant wrote:

Hi Frank,

I think you are missing the point regarding that comment, as exciting as Christmas and Cocos sound (I would love to go birding there!) they are not
in the same faunal zone as Australia so many birders don't see the
relevance. You may as well go New Caledonia and add those species to your
'French' list.

Tom



And I remember there was a comment about the possible Short-toed Eagle in Victoria being better than the rarities reported on Cocos and Christmas in December. Sorry. Not even close!!! I saw 11 new birds for my Australian list, and I dipped on two. Even Mike Carter added 9 birds to his Australian
list.


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