Serious first, fun second.

[Ron Gatrelle]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Clay Taylor" <CTaylor at swarovskioptik.com>
To: "Ron Gatrelle" <gatrelle at tils-ttr.org>; "Leps-l"
<Leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 3:14 AM
Subject: Re: Serious first, fun second.


> Ron -
>
> This "Birder's" response;
>
> In the first place "Audubon" has been dead for over a century, and he
made
> all his IDs over the barrel of a shotgun.
>
> The American Birding Association sets ethical codes for behavior while in
> the field, but there are NO standards for field identification except
those
> set by local and state birding organizations, and in the case of first
North
> American sightings, the American Ornithological Union. There are plenty
of
> bogus bird sightings that get reported - some are honest mistakes, and
> others are the result of poor judgment.  Many of the subsequent debates
are
> anything but gentle.
>
>  If you think that the birding community universally uses the same ID
> standards, your ignorance of the birding world matches our ignorance of
the
> entomological world.   I also reiterate my earlier comment that there are
> more than a few incorrectly identified pinned insect specimens as well as
> bird specimens in museums.
>
> Keep writing about skippers and your fieldwork - I learn a lot and don't
> have to get annoyed.
>
> Clay Taylor
> Moodus, CT
> ctaylor at att.net

Fair enough and aptly said ;-)   I shall go back under the porch where the
pups belong as I sure don't no nuttin bout no birdin.
Ron

PS    I thought he was still alive. (It would be great if I could just
leave this one liner as is -- but someone would think I was serious. I know
he died last year.)

RG


 
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