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Re: Un-doing a bird



Shantanu
I know another way to delete that life bird.  Are you sure you saw it well
enough that you can positively rule out Great-Tailed Grackle?  I bet that
while sitting in your car, you didn't hear it call or see it's eye color.  I
think you need to see it again to positively ID that bird.  Admit that you
really didn't see it well enough and there, its off your list.

Now, when you get over this foolishness about skipping the great
state...er..country... no I mean state of  TEXAS, and decide that you want
to skip on down here to the Heart of the Hill Country in the early spring,
give me a call and we'll go take a look at some of our Golden-Cheeked
Warblers.

A replanted Tarheel,
Todd Council
Austin, Texas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marie La Salle" <mlasalle@mindspring.com>
To: "shantanu phukan" <phukan@email.unc.edu>
Cc: <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 11:21 AM
Subject: Re: Un-doing a bird


> That's an easy one...ask any Texan if they consider Texas a separate
> sovereign country that just happens to be part of the US.
>
> Foreign country, foreign sighting...case closed...
>
> Marie La Salle
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "shantanu phukan" <phukan@email.unc.edu>
> To: <>
> Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 11:38 AM
> Subject: Un-doing a bird
>
>
> > Dear Listers:
> >
> > Here is a knotty (and I admit, nutty) ethical question for us birders
> > to ponder. How does one annul a life-bird once one has seen it?
> > Why would one want to?  Well, a birder-friend and I were sitting down
> > to breakfast and planning out the rest of our lives bird-wise when we
> > both realized that I have never gone to Texas and thus have no life
> > birds in that state. The challenge my friend posed for me was to amass
> > a North Amercian life list of 500 (I am upto about 420 now) without
> > ever seeing a life-bird in Texas.
> >
> > We both realized that it would be a lot more fun to embark on this
> > project together. The only hitch is that although she has never
> > deliberately birded Texas she did see a life bird INADVERTENTLY while
> > driving through the state (a Boat-Tailed Grackle that unfortunately
> > flew by in front of the car). Now we are wondering how to annul this
> > sighting so we can both take up the challenge of amassing a long life
> > list without ever counting Texas. Should accidental life birds 'count'
> > as much as 'deliberate' ones? Would the ABA masters take a grim view
> > of 'un-doing' a bird?
> >
> >  O.K. so, I am shirking work by spinning off these silly
> > thoughts....But doesn't some of the fun of birding lie in setting up
> > strange counting goals and strategies?
> >
> > Shantanu Phukan
> >
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