Outdoor Ontario
Off Topic => Anything Goes => Topic started by: Trillian Flummox on June 24, 2013, 09:22:15 AM
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Not a lot of birding going on for me lately and not a lot of activity here on the forums, so here's a funny blog post for you to enjoy:
http://www.thebirdist.com/2013/06/is-this-bird-aba-countable.html
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Thanks for posting, really funny :lol:
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Thats funny. It reminds of seeing and photographing a Ibis species in ontario a while back and I sent in a cd full of images to the ofo along with a rare bird report. About 6 months later they contacted me and said they could not accept the report. I won't be sending in any again for anything, too much politics.
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That is very funny. Yeah the rules are complicated and I get most of them. But there is one instance where a sighting of mine was not counted on ebird and that's of the Muscovy Duck. To me it hits all the criteria for a countable bird:
1. Does it live, unassisted by humans, in the wild? - yes
2. Does it eat, sleep and procreate in the wild? - yes
3. Does it have an extensive and sustainable population in the wild? - yes
I get that it is an offshoot of a domestic version of the Muscovy Duck...but now feral populations have established themselves in the wild and have become part of the eco-system. They are wild again. Plus I think it's a countable bird in the United States. But not in Ontario apparently. So my personal list is currently 1 higher than my OFO list. I wonder if they'll ever revise this current ruling.
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Probably doesn't fulfill all the requiremetns set out here:
http://aba.org/checklist/exotics.html