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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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But, he continued, some – but not all – of the researchers drove him nuts. Their attitude was “the rules don’t apply to me, I’m a researcher.” Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song? Researchers can and do provide valuable information. Or how gracefully it flew? Who its predators were?

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Some thoughts on scientific collecting

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The species was in the news because some scientists had finally managed (or bothered – it’s much the same thing) to locate the population high in the mountains of the Solomon Islands, and catch and photograph one. Today one can’t help feel Owen’s idea has been turned on its head.

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Chasing cuckoos

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While Australian birds migrate to New Guinea, New Zealand birds migrate to the Bismark Archipelago and the Solomon Islands (there are also resident populations in New Caledonia and Vanuatu). That said, it was just such a silly impulse that took me last weekend.