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Re: news report
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Re: news report
- From: "Will Cook" <cwcook@duke.edu>
- Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 14:53:04 -0400
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I guess the game's up. The secret of the so-called bird experts is out.
We've all just been taking hallucinogens. It's no wonder beginners have
trouble seeing what we see. :-)
Actually, most birders I know do take one performance enhancing drug --
caffeine. Maybe that's why Birding magazine devotes so much space to shade-
grown coffee.
(In case anyone was thinking of taking the "news" story seriously, it's a
spoof posted to Texbirds yesterday by Rob Fergus, who says he was trying to
avoid working on his dissertation. He could have a career with
theonion.com!)
> I'll close with a news story below about some birders in South Carolina.
> I guess they are non-Carolinabirders, none of the names sound familiar...
> Is THAT how Robin Carter keeps getting all those huge big day totals? ;-)
>
> Joshua S. Rose
> Duke University
> Department of Biology (Zoology, R.I.P.)
>
> jsr6@acpub.duke.edu
> http://www.duke.edu/~jsr6/
>
> ---------------forwarded message----------------------
> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 22:51:40 GMT
>
> Check out this news report from http://www.abcnews.com/102934453.html
> ...What's next, random drug testing at the birding classic...?
>
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
>
> Birders Decry Use of Performance Enhancing Drugs
> (AP) Grandon, South Carolina.
>
> Birdwatchers--or birders, as they prefer to be called--have struggled for
> years to shed the image of little old ladies in canvas tennis shoes
> stalking sparrows in the park. Since the late 1960s, birders have
> promoted the competitive aspects of their hobby through listing--usually
> friendly competitions to see the highest number of species in a given
> area or during organized day-long birding events. However, several
> recent incidents have cast a dark shadow across the face of competitive
> birding.
[rest omitted]
> Rob Fergus
> Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory
> 2210 S. FM 973
> Austin, Texas 78725
>
> Phone: (512)929-1019
> Email: fergus@hornsbybend.org
> Website: www.hornsbybend.org
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Charles W. "Will" Cook w 919-660-7423
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook cwcook@duke.edu
Box 90340, Biology Dept., Duke Univ., Durham, NC 27708