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From: s30986u@kaira.hut.fi (Martin Helin)
Newsgroups: rec.birds
Subject: Re: Indoor birds and birdwatching
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.114032.15344@santra.uucp>
Date: 12 Feb 91 11:40:32 GMT
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mary@dinorah.wustl.edu (Mary E. Leibach) writes:

*I presume you are not refering to well-fed, are you?  Thought not.  I
*don't remember much talk about stuffed birds in the history of this group.  So
*why you should bring that up along with indoor only gives the
*impression that you are prejudiced against indoor birds and those who
*love them.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend any indoor bird lovers
(although I am a little bit prejudiced against them - why should
I be prejudiced against indoor birds !? I doubt that it's their
fault that they're 'indoor' !). I was merely giving two examples
of birds which are hardly in their natural state/habitat. No
connection between the two was implied (although I prefer stuffing
birds to keeping them indoors if they're not killed for stuffing
purposes - but it's not a strong preference. I guess keeping birds
in cages or otherwise indoors is OK but I wouldn't do it myself)

*And its not about which is most natural, if
*that were the case, OUTDOOR would be it.  After all, OUTDOOR birds do
*not read (or have it read to them) this group.  ;-)

I'm glad you had that ;-) there - I don't need to start this all
over again. (I'm glad to discuss this privately but let's stop
wasting 'bandwidth' here after this. OK ?)


				Martin

PS. Sorry about this late reply but I was unable to post
to the news for a while.
Martin Helin	Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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