Dear Anthea
I am all the way with you on this one.
Denise Goodfellow
On 20 Feb 2015, at 2:23 pm, brian fleming <> wrote:
> I am personally always delighted to see a new bird.
> I am prepared to get in the car and drive a moderate distance to go and see
> one. I have been known to pay money for people to show me birds in Cape York
> and the Kimberley.
> But I am extremely concerned - no, appalled, to hear of some person
> seriously suggesting that spinifex should be fired in order to give him a
> chance of "ticking" a Night Parrot, or anything else. Or trespassing on
> indigenous people's land to see a Princess Parrot, as happened a few years
> ago.
> My personal opinion is that far too much effort is spent on ticking species
> and building life-lists. If the same effort was put into studying the
> life-histories of even common birds, we would know very much more than we do.
> Certainly atlassing has greatly built up our knowledge of bird distribution
> and migration, and Twitchathons etc. have provided a great deal of fun for
> those energetic enough to do it - so has digital photography. But first and
> foremost, please let us consider the birds.
>
> Anthea Fleming
>
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