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non tickable sightings

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Subject: non tickable sightings
From: robert morris <>
Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 13:21:42 +0000




In the twitching scene in the UK it means this: you have positively identified 
a bird - perhaps by call or a distinctive feature but the bird is flying over 
high up or you see it for a split second. You know what you've seen but for a 
new bird (a lifer) - most people tend to want to 'grill' the bird i.e. watch it 
for 1/2 an hour in the bins or scope and see every feature. 
I for example only tick views of button-quail I see sitting on the ground - 
watching them in my bins. Looking at thier feather detail, see the glint in 
their eye. I have managed to see little, red-chested, red-backed, painted and 
black-breasted in this way - but have only had flight views (which I consider 
'untickable') of Chestnut-backed (flying away over tall dry grass in Kakadu!). 
So this is not on my list; and don't even mention Buff-breasted!
Rob Morris 

 





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> Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 17:13:09 +1030
> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] non tickable sightings
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> 
> You could be right Mark. I understood it to mean an exotic or perhaps a 
> native artificially confined. I hadn't thought about your definition.
> Cheers
> John McVictor Harbor
> 
> > Date: Sat, 7 May 2011 16:09:29 +1000
> > From: 
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> > Subject: [Birding-Aus] non tickable sightings
> > 
> > Can anyone explain to me what an untickable sighting is? As an avid
> > birdwatcher of nine years,I have recently started my life list(to those of
> > you who are feeling a little faint,sorry).I have heard this term used a few
> > times now and am a little confused.I assume (never a good idea); it to be a
> > bird that you are 99% sure of but not positive of.Surely this is a probable
> > sighting,as if you know what species it is,it is tickable.I am not trying to
> > be pedantic,but genuinely interested.Happy birding,Mark.
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