Sean,
Nobody has been spraying Brown Falcons grey. They have just been out
in the sun a lot and faded. Probably a dodgy batch of pigment genes.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 20/01/2012, at 9:26 AM, wrote:
I don't see what the big fuss is over this story. Exactly this sort
of thing has been going on for years in Australia where somebody has
been spray painting Brown Falcons grey in the Outback to con gullible
birders that there is an actual species out there called Grey Falcon!
I flagged all this in my book "Anoraks to Zitting Cisticola" where I
documented how my extensive research into Grey Falcons (more than a
dozen unsuccessful stake outs in supposedly "known" locations) proved
conclusively that there is no such bird and anyone who has claimed to
have seen this mythical creature is either part of the conspiracy (I
suspect perpetuated by the Outback Tourism Board to lure in gullible,
cash-laden twitchers) or they have been duped by the dodgy spray paint
job.
I better sign off now, before "they" trace the computer I am typing
this from and send in "their" goons to silence me.
Sean "The Truth is Out There" Dooley
On 19/01/2012 6:09 PM Philip Veerman wrote:
Oh what a stupid story. Or more to the point a story about a stupid
person.
Why would someone bother doing something so dopey and would anyone
really
think that there was a new bird in existence?
Philip
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Subject: New NZ Raptor a hoax!
http://www.theage.com.au/world/new-bird-species-a-spray-paint-prank-20120119
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