Subject: Thanks re; checklist order
Date: Mar 24 14:48:05 2004
From: variedthrush at comcast.net - variedthrush at comcast.net


I really appreciate every response to the list and to me personally about checklist order. I kind of stuck my neck out because I get Tweeters in the digest form, so when I sent my message I had no way of knowing whether or not folks were picking up the thread until today. I really wanted to see the discussion continue. Especially, I appreciated Kelly's practical response to Linda that inexperienced birders would benefit from 'looks-like-a-...' groupings as opposed to alphabetical listing. That is, if I understand correctly, how our current groupings all began.

Patricia Lott

P.S. And then, there's the interesting evolutionary discussion of the Hawaiian Honeycreeper (no relation to the African Honeycreeper) as a descendant, like most Hawaiian birds, of the finch.--Hope I'm mostly correct about this, Gene.

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