Any one who stays overnight can be said to be resident at a certain place for that time, so I guess all of the below are included as resident. This is good enough for the Australian Census, so it is good enough for me.
As to “including all the vagrants exciting the twitchers”, well, as they are physically present on Cocos and Christmas, they must be included in the local population, otherwise they become an avian equivalent of Schrödinger’s Cat.
If people want to spend their money going of to C&C to chase vagrants, fine, it is their money. I prefer to see the vagrants at home, where I can spend more time watching their behaviour. I don’t worry about how how many species I see, I am not even sure how many I have seen (somewhere over 2,000 I think). I guess I am not kiasu enough to be a gun birder.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
On 09/01/2011, at 12:16 PM, Laurie Knight wrote:
How long do you have to reside at a place before you are considered to be part of the population? Do you include tourists and short-term foreign students? I’m not sure what the average “half-life” of internment on Christmas Island is. The long-term residents of Christmas Island are made up of three ethnic groups: Chinese, Malays and mainland Australians.
Shifting the focus of attention to the birds, would you include all the vagrants exciting the twitchers in the bird populations of Xmas and CCK Islands?
LK
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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