French birders could add birds seen in Guadeloupe, Martinique French Guyana (Guyane) and Reunion to their French lists, as the above are Departments (the equivalent to our states) of France. I wonder if they do? The bio-geographic regions are a bit un-French though
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 09/01/2011, at 12:56 PM, david taylor wrote:
And as Tom points out – do the French birders add New Caledonia birds because its a territory of theirs?
But each to his own and great birding all.
cheers
David Taylor
On 09/01/2011, at 10:32 AM, Carl Clifford wrote:
> Tom, > > I heartily agree. You could almost say that birding on Christmas and > Cocos was SE Asian birding for xenophobes, except for the fact that > the population of Cocos is mainly Malay and the population of > Christmas is mainly Middle Eastern, albeit they are banged-up in a > concentration camp > > Cheers, > > Carl Clifford > > > On 09/01/2011, at 7:38 AM, Tom Tarrant wrote: > > Hi Frank, > > I think you are missing the point regarding that comment, as > exciting as > Christmas and Cocos sound (I would love to go birding there!) they > are not > in the same faunal zone as Australia so many birders don’t see the > relevance. You may as well go New Caledonia and add those species to > your > ‘French’ list. > > Tom > > > >> And I remember there was a comment about the possible Short-toed >> Eagle in >> Victoria being better than the rarities reported on Cocos and >> Christmas in >> December. Sorry. Not even close!!! I saw 11 new birds for my >> Australian >> list, and I dipped on two. Even Mike Carter added 9 birds to his >> Australian >> list. >> >> > — > ******************************** > Tom Tarrant > Kobble Creek, Qld > > http://kobble.aviceda.org > > http://picasaweb.google.com.au/aviceda/ > ******************************** > =============================== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > send the message: > unsubscribe > (in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > > http://birding-aus.org > =============================== > > =============================== > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list,send the message: > unsubscribe(in the body of the message, with no Subject line) > to: birding-aus-request@vicnet.net.au > > http://birding-aus.org > ===============================
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