Nice report Dave but, I must say I was a bit disappointed as it seems that your recent travel and adventure and seeing the gloriousness of our beloved country at its finest and intended ticking of unseen (by you) birds had absolutely no mention of “a legitimate need to know about the distribution of particular species” and seemed to unashamedly include “that your bird list of itself has become some kind of contest or somehow important” and worst of all “might be fun!!!”. Therefore according to the scientific world of seriousness I deem your report “a load of twaddle”.
And I am very upset you didn’t invite me…
Steve Potter.
off to examine the legitimate need to know about the repeated formation of waves and their characteristics with a highly advanced piece of foam and fibreglass with ABSOLUTLY no intention of having fun….
Trip report Outback SA and Alice Springs
from [ http://bioacoustics.cse.unsw.edu.au/archives/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=%2Bfr om%3Adavid.kowalick%40fishgate.org.au&idxname=birding-aus&sort=date%3Alate> David Kowalick]
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Birding Aus
Subject:
Trip report Outback SA and Alice Springs
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David Kowalick
Date:
Mon, 16 May 2011 13:55:09 +0930
Eventually I heard the unmistakable call of emu-wrens again and was a led merry chase through the densest part of the spinifex catching fleeting glimpses of the birds but no ‘tickable views.’ I know this has been a subject of keen debate on the Birding Aus site lately so won’t revisit all that here and now.
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2 responses to “Trip report Outback SA and Alice Springs and “tickable views””
Dear Tony and friends. Sorry about my perceived previous attack (attached) on David Kowalick’s outstanding report on the Alice trip etc. My intended “tongue in cheek” rebuff of his report was maybe not so obvious.
So to clarify, David Kowalick is my mate and occasional travelling birding partner and all around good guy! We bird because we unashamedly enjoy it whether it has any scientific value or not. My post was provoked by a previous comment re the legitimacy of “non-scientifically motivated bird study” and “un-tickable” sightings. Again Sorry I stooped… I am now aware that this had been a long running feud that I wish not be caught up in. I am too busy having fun. I still wished I had gone with Dave… Steve Potter
Hi David
It is possible that you saw the slaty backed thornbill. I say this as when I lived in Alice I wondered how come I wasn’t seeing them and it was because I was putting too much emphasis on the eye colour. PIzzey shows the eye as being bright red but HANZAB shows a brown and gives a description of reddish brown. I brought my problem of not seeing them to this forum and somebody who I can’t remember alerted me to the eye problem and sent me some photos of slaty backs.
Since then I have got HANZAB and the contrast in the illustrations in Pizzey and HANZAB is striking.
Gary
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