HI:
Has anyone heard of this book/movie before??

Ian Paulsen
Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
ipaulsen at krl.org
A.K.A.: "Birdbooker"
"Rallidae all the way"

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Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 21:53:15 -0300
From: Richard Stern <rbstern at NS.SYMPATICO.CA>
To: BIRDCHAT at listserv.arizona.edu
Subject: Re: [BIRDCHAT] Tasker's Sulphurious Duck

Hi,

>>>>> It's Canadian, set on the Atlantic
coast, someplace on the other side of Maine. <<<<

In fact, the movie "Rare Birds" is set in the fine Province of Newfoundland
and Labrador (as it is now officially known), excellent for its friendly
people, wonderful scenery and great birding. I believe much of the location
scenes were in Trinity Bay. I read the book before seeing the movie -
thought both were a bit silly but zany, and the birders were quite
accurately portrayed while they were perched on the cliff-top looking for
the duck, but to dress in shirt, tie and jacket/ suit later on for dinner in
a cliff-top remote restaurant? I thought the duck in question "Tasker's
Sulphureous" was loosely based on the Labrador Duck, now extinct, but which
probably ocurred at one time off the coast of Newfoundland. There are
pictures of a pair by Audubon
(http://www.geocities.com/carmelbird/birds/americas/duck.html ) and Fuertes
(http://posters.barnesandnoble.com/search/product_large.asp?userid=28IQYY15S
M&EAN=9780587086758), and there is a similarity. I don't know if the author,
Edward Richie, is a birder, but I agree - surely he must have heard of the
Maryland restaurant that hosted the Kelp Gull and the birders that went
there? Any comments from Newfoundlanders? .



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Richard Stern
Kentville
Nova Scotia
Canada

rbstern at ns.sympatico.ca

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