Wonder what criteria Florida uses for exotics review ... ? :-) Thanks Gary Lefko, Nunn http://coloradobirder.ning.com/
On May 10, 12:14 pm, Dennis Garrison <[email protected]> wrote: > So, what ARE the standards that the record committee uses to determine if a > bird is real or not? I have seen, and see reports of, exotic birds on > occasion, and they are almost all casually discarded as escaped domestics > without anyone objecting, even though most if not all of them are, like this > sparrow, perfectly capable of having flown here from whichever corner of the > world they usually inhabit. What makes this bird any different? If the > committee gets to decide whether a bird counts or not, usually without any of > them having seen it for themselves, then there needs to be some SOLID > criteria dictating what is and is not accepted, and that needs to be made > clear to all the birders. A decision of "well, you can buy them on the free > market so it must be an escaped domestic" or "Someone has one of those as a > pet in [insert name of nearby town]" or "It can decide to fly up here from > South America so it could be a real sighting" are all insufficient, in my > opinion. > > In the end, none of us really KNOWS where these birds come from. > > http://www.birdsexpress.net/rufous-collared-sparrow.html > > $35 gets you one > > Dennis Garrison > Paonia, Delta County -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cobirds?hl=en.
