I'm wondering if anyone here has access to the first British Birds article
listed on this page:
http://www.britishbirds.co.uk/article/british-birds-may-2012/
Unfortunately only the abstract is listed there, but I'd like to track down the
full article. This is the abstract:
What the eye doesn't see: the prevalence of fraud in ornithology Andrew Harrop,
Martin Collinson and Tim Melling broach one of the thorniest topics in birding.
They suggest that there is a tendency to see examples of fraud in ornithology
as rare aberrations. Their paper outlines some known and suspected historical
examples of fraud, and argues that fraud of one kind or another has occurred
more or less consistently, if uncommonly, in ornithology. Although most of the
examples discussed are from Britain, it is likely that similar examples could
be found in the archives of many nations. It is also likely that small-scale
fraud continues today and is something that the ornithological community should
be aware of. In particular, this has implications for the level of proof
required by those assessing records of rarities.
Peter Shute
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