Subject: [Tweeters] Counting Condors
Date: Dec 11 15:18:06 2006
From: sgmlod at aol.com - sgmlod at aol.com


Greetings All

First of all, M Patterson nailed it on the head. It is your list, you choose what to count.

I do think any vagueness or contradictions in recent ABA Check-list Committee publication is likely by accident.

The ABA rules allow you to count an extinct species IF YOU SAW IT BEFORE it became extinct/extirpated. The exception is introduced birds. Even if you saw them when they were considered a viable population in North America, if they disappeared from North America, off the list they go (as far as ABA is concerned).


So, if you saw a California Condor in 1970, it still counts.
If you saw Crested Myna, too bad, off it goes.

Again, these are the official ABA rules, unless I am sorely mistaken.
Your rules are, and should be, your rules.

Cheers
Steven Mlodinow
Everett WA
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